Health Insurers' Profits Grow by Leaps and Bounds

According to a study by a pro-health reform group published Thursday, the nation's largest five health insurance companies posted a 56 percent gain in 2009 profits over 2008.

This situation clearly illustrates the plight of working people versus the privileged status of corporations.

To my mind, certain services are simply NOT opportunities to make money. These include education, transportation, day care, elder care - and of course health care. These are so fundamental to the human condition and everybody's basic rights that they are worthy of subsidy as needed.

Still capitalism seeks new frontiers to plunder in every nook and cranny of American life....