Insurance Companies Prosper, families suffer

From an article in Healthreform.Gov

“Recent economic data show that profits for the ten largest insurance companies increased 250 percent between 2000 and 2009, ten times faster than inflation.” (see footnotes 12 & 13 at link)

So while the Democrats try to push a national health care program, the Republicans focus on blocking it because they don’t want socialized medicine. (Or is it that they are focused on sinking Obama? Sometimes it is hard to tell.)

Wouldn’t it make sense to focus on what can be done like finding a way to make insurance companies honestly competitive? It is pretty clear that there is more interest in power politics than helping the most vulnerable people in society.