This guy is killing the health care debate with independents every time he speaks. He looks and sounds like a MSNBC robot, parroting back everything they say. If he was a VP of Communications, then he must have had pictures of someone, what a joke. He comes across as a bitter ex-insurance industry guy who is trying to get back at the people who laughed at him behind his back...we need a real industry spokes person, not a Dick Morris has been.
I agree with your post entirely.
I think where we've failed is in elementary and secondary education. When I was young, we talked about civic responsibilities seriously. As my child goes through the system today, I must raise that subject and educate him myself, hoping that he will help reverse the trend someday.
It is ultimately up to us to create thinking children.
I think that many people do not understand two things about business, generally.
First, business leaders simply don't care. They don't care about you, what you think, whether or not you have a job, or whether or not you don't like their bonus payouts.
Second, they do whatever they want simply because they can.
So, why do we allow that?
Siimply put, "we, the people" don't allow it. Rather, our leaders allow it. And allow it they must, in order to pay for their re-election campaigns and to connect their families to amazing business opportunities.
On regulation itself -- I'm no fan of government regulation but, as we found in 1929 and 2008, the costs of insufficient regulation far outweigh the benefits. Moreover, if the regulatory bodies themselves remain under-powered and morally disconnected, then even reasonable regulation will never work.
Can this be changed?
Perhaps it is time for public financing of federal electoral campaigns... Can it be worse than what we have now?
I think you need to find a way to turn up the volume on your voice.
As a former insider, you do have a voice to add but, unfortunately, you're being out-spent and out-maneuvered.
That said, you must realize the hypocrisy of your actions in the sense that you became far more wealthy despite your knowledge of industry practice. I say that because I think you were smart enough 20 years ago to realize very, very quickly what you were doing, and what the industry was doing.
I think you simply have grown older and wiser since then. Perhaps you stayed to help raise your family and provide for your own retirement. I think you need to be just a notch more honest with those motives as your visibility on this issue rises.
I am glad that you're helping people to comprehend the depth and nature of the industry's efforts to deceive everyone for their own gain.
I hope that your resources from the Center become sufficient to really impact public knowledge, and the debate.
I think that you've found a wonderful way to spend your retirement, and I hope to follow your example someday to change public policy in the areas of employment and equitable trade.
Best regards,
Sam
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