Weak Protest for ObamaCare in Tucson

Tuesday in Tucson, a group of about a dozen fans of ObamaCare and single payer health care protested outside of the UnitedHealth building. According to MoveOn, the rally was to send the message that people are "sick of Big Insurance."

I wonder if the protesters were in on the joke. UnitedHealth is a member of AHIP (America’s Health Insurance Plans), a lobbying group that has been supporting the Obama/Pelosi plan, because it contained certain provisions that are beneficial to the big insurance companies--such as the individual mandate, which will force citizens to buy one of the qualifying plans in the government-created insurance cartels known as “exchanges.” AHIP and PhRMA have spent tens of millions of dollars courting Obama and Pelosi, but the leftists are still not appeased.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/08/12/big_business_goes_big_for_health-care_reform_97859.html

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124891353497192109.html?mod=todays-us-page-one

A Tucson activist emailed me to find out if we would help promote a counter-protest. I declined the offer. As it turned out, there was almost no protest to counter. But the reason I declined is that I’m not interested in defending insurance companies that are in league with Big Government. They are selling the hangman’s rope to the socialists, so I would prefer to watch as they twist in the wind.

--Tom

PS: I'm not criticizing the business side of UnitedHealth, just their lobbying side. I believe that the business side of UnitedHealth has begun offering a health status insurance product, which in the future will be crucial to dealing with the problem of hard-to-insure health conditions. Of course, once all insurance plans are regulated by DC, it may be that the Washington bureaucrats will not allow UnitedHealth to continue offering that kind of insurance...