Unions are upset that their members will be required to pay taxes on the excessive amounts of health insurance they receive. Such gold platted policies help to drive the cost of healthcare up. But I also oppose Plain and her death panel attacks on common sense measures to control cost. If cost need to be controlled, which most people agree with, then someone somewhere is going to have to say that some things are simply to expensive. Of course if the dems were really serious about reducing cost and just expanding coverage they would willing to add some reasonable tort reform. They are willing to do whatever it takes to pass healthcare reform, except anger the unions and trial lawyers.

Insurance companies try and limit how much is spent on healthcare. It is in their interest to keep cost down how does that make part of the problem with rising healthcare cost? That is leap in logic I trouble following. I think part of the problem is dems are selling one thing but offering another. The bills we have seen are not designed to do anything to reign in the out of control growth and that is why they can’t build support even though most people want reform.