Media Matters unpacks Blue Cross propaganda

The Health care crisis is the Titanic and in NC the iceberg is BCBSNC, who insures most residents. First those who cannot afford the companies rates or have preexisting conditions go under, then those who have large premiums or out of pocket costs, then those who have good insurance but a catastrophic illness comes along, finally the most well off will go down. I have met many people against health care reform who feel they are not going to be affected by others losing there insurance, but they are. We all are. More people using emergency rooms makes every ones health care go up. Also as less people are insured, paying into the pool everyone elses rates go up. In the industry it is known as the spiral of death. People are dropped, rates go up, more people are dropped, rates go up, etc. It happens both with in individual group plans and then is passed to every consumer. The top executives at BCBSNC will not take cuts in there huge salaries to compensate for lost income and eventually like the auto industry they will have a product very few can afford. Then what a government bail out? It is for their survival to lower their operating costs i.e. executive compensation and all the money they are spending to stop health care reform and have insurance plans consumers can afford. Will greed or good business sense prevail?