[BfloGuy]

Of course insurance companies ration care. Any bureaucracy would. Their primary objective is to collect premiums and deny benefits. It's how they parasitically live off of healthcare.

Utter nonsense.

That's like saying that supermarkets ration food because they charge for it. Would you say that's how they parasitically live off our hunger?

[steelyourfaith]

Surely you jest, as I won't want to insult your intelligence by suggesting that you actually believe what you wrote there.

Quite simply, there is absolutely no analogy between super markets and healthcare insurance as middlemen.

• (1.) Supermarkets don't confiscate your money up front and then try to control how, if and when that money is returned to you (sans, of course, the parasitic skim off the top to build skyscraper monuments to themselves).
• (2.) Super markets actually provide a service (a valuable and convenient one at that) by gathering food items in one location, saving consumers time. I hardly see where insurance companies collecting-premiums/shuffling-papers/denying-benefits can be construed as a service for the folks from whom the money is extracted.