more industry lobbying to oppose public health plan

Last week we found out about the health industry spending $1.4 million per day lobbying Congress to fight health care reform. Now this:

Five insurance producer associations are planning a joint lobbying effort ... on health care reform in the nation's capital...

... they will host a special joint health care reform Capitol Hill fly-in July 14-15.

With both the House and Senate poised to consider health care reform legislation in late July, the groups see this event as an opportunity for them to voice their opposition to the creation of a public plan that would [?] against private insurance companies in the health insurance marketplace.

Insurance Brokers Plan 'Fly-In' to Lobby on Health Care Reform,
Insurance Journal, June 9, 2009.

Where do they get the money to fight health care reform?

In this country, 87 million people went uninsured in the past two years. The rest of the industrialized nations spend far less than we do per person and they manage to cover everyone. How can they afford to do this?

We can cover everyone for less than we are paying now. (In fact, we could cover everyone in the U.S. and Canada for less than we are paying now.) We don't need to spend more for a better health care system. We need the money we are already spending to go to people who want to provide care, not make a profit.