greed and health care

Insurance companies are spending about a million dollars a day to prevent any health care reform in the US. What makes this process so totally insane is that by law health insurance companies are one of only two organizations exempt from anti trust laws. The other is major league baseball. We know that no one really dies from major league baseball but we do know that thousands of people die each year from the lack of medical coverage. The role of insurance companies today is similar to tobacco company executives who knew for years that their products caused millions of death per year. They knew that the way you used their products caused death while profit and greed and sociopathy to the concerns of the lives of others were their prime motivators. They just didn't care.The insurance companies, their lobbyists, and elected officials who take their money, just don't care and are enablers to the cause of deaths of thousands of people per year. What is the cost benefit analysis of the preventable death of one person? Of your child? Your parent? This is not health care, this is not capitalism, this is not about what a democracy is. Its about a society that has lost its concern for the common good. Its a society that has lost all sense of balance between the role of money and the importance of the preventable suffering of even one person. Its about a country where the word empathy has become a politically pejoritive word. This is not what I thought my country is about.