Health care reform is unfair to-- Big Medicine?!

So the big talking point of the day from Republicans is that competition for pharmaceudical and insurance companies is bad.

See, if they compete against each other, and refuse to cover those who need care, they win. But if they have to compete against the government-- and not just each other-- they lose. Why is this?

For starters, they don't want to have to cover sick people. Chew on this: most insurance companies won't take on a sick person if they've ever been sick with the same illness before. And why don't they have to? The government doesn't tell them they have to.

Most pharmaceudical companies also have no oversight on price or content. The government doesn't tell them they have to.

Nearly all doctors agree that the system is broken, but they don't want to fix it. The government doesn't tell them they have to.

The vast majority of Americans think of Big Medicine and Big Insurance as evil and undesirable. The government would give them a choice.

Now that the federal government wants to step in, Rebublicans and Big Medicine are all scared. Why? Because the government can provide some much-needed backlash and muscle against these fucking behemoths. Earlier this week, Republican Senator Mitch McConnell sneered that "the public doesn't want the same people who run the Department of Motor Vehicles" to run their health care. I seriously doubt that-- given 38% approval of the current system-- the public wants the status quo either.

Let's hope the bait-and-switch won't work anymore. Since the days of Reagan's cries of socialism, the pharmaceudical companies have taken to lobbying everyone... EVERYONE... in Washington (Hillary Clinton, Newt Gingrich, John McCain, Harry Reid).

So, according to the Republicans, as long as Big Medicine, Big Pharma, and Big Insurance run Washington-- and not the other way around-- everything will be fine. Yeah fucking right.