Health Care BS

My tinfoil hat must have a leak. This angle had never occurred to me until I read Tim Carney’s piece in the Examiner:

The biggest lobbyists in the [health care] industry all support the Democratic bill. America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), the trade association for HMOs, supports the bill, as do its biggest members, such as Blue Cross Blue Shield.

Why would they do that? Well, SCHIP is usually administered by private insurance companies:

States put “poor” children on private HMOs and let the taxpayers pick up the tab … For the HMOs, what could be better than a customer who is spending someone else’s money.

So, what happens if the righteous indignation of the “progressive community” changes enough votes to override Bush’s veto?

If Congress spends more money on SCHIP and states are scrambling to enroll more families, then HMOs get even more of these customers.

Would it not be ironic if the Left’s collective cri du coeur over Bush’s veto of SCHIP ends up abetting the dastardly aims of the “health care industrial complex”?

[via Cato Blog]