8) Avoid any mention of the fact that for-profit insurers invest heavily in pharmaceuticals, even the ones that produce tobacco pesticides, in spite of the conflict of interest that cannot help but result in the insurers' promoting their own investment properties' drugs over others that may be safer, cheaper, and more effective.
9) Avoid questions about how chemical industry-linked insurers will simply not work to provide proper studies or patient diagnoses that may lead to indictment or exposure of their investment-properties' chemicals or other industrial health harming substances. Funding for patients' body-burden checks for industrial toxins and carcinogens is nowhere to be seen in current health care legislation even though such checks are imperative for a patient's medical diagnosis.
10) Never expose or mention that many health insurers invest in firms that conduct cruel animal experiments. Such progressives do not want energetic and active Animal Rights groups messing with the push towards privatization of public health insurance.
11) Do Not Mention that current health care legislation focuses on personal behavior, and exercise, diet, obesity, tobacco plants, and alcohol, but utterly ignores any and all industrial causes of sickness and death, such as pesticides, dioxin-producing chlorine, radiation, worker safety violations, food contamination, industrial pollution, vehicle exhaust, and so on.
12) Never raise a question about mandates being in violation of Constitutional Protections against Compulsory Speech---as so many in certain income brackets will be forced to speak, with words and money, to private insurers. The only ways to opt out would be a) leave the country, b) deplete assets to poverty level, or c) die.
13) Dare not mention that any government-subsidized health care involving private insurers means that everyone's tax money will, in significant part, go to a) private insurer's campaign contributions, b) insurers' lobbying, c) CEO bonuses, d) corporate jets, e) advertising, f) business conventions, g) and brass and furniture polish at corporate headquarters. None of that rises to anywhere near the level of a Public Interest justification to mandate patronage of private insurers, or to justify government subsidies to that industry.
14) And, Do Not Mention that those in income brackets where the mandate kicks in will be paying TWICE to private insurers---once directly, and again on April 15, to pay for those government subsidies for private insurance coverage of lower income brackets. The middle classes don't know how generous they are.
Upper classes can opt out via self insurance---as if a year's worth of health insurance can't be paid by income from the last day or two---or the last ten minutes. No sweat off their collective brow.
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