Our health insurance is only remotely 'private' as it stands. It is getting more socialized every day. The feds are controlling everything. Latest (due for implementation on May 23 this year) is that all standard health care business transactions will be required to use a single identifier for each provider.
Why do the feds insist that all providers have one and only one number to be used in health care? They can't take over a disjointed system and then fix it. They must force the private sector to unify everything so they can then take it over.
We can moan all we want but the system is already showing all the marks of a government system. Hence people will begin more and more to hate it. Once we are all convinced that it is a 'bad' system and that it is a 'private' system they will have no trouble getting us to accept a socialized system because we are sheeple.
What is an HMO, really?
That's a very good point. We need to be more vigilant about power grabs and usurpations of the reserved powers of the states and the people (Amendment X).