Well…looking outside and seeing it snowing has made me depressed so I thought I might just as well get into something else that depresses me….the shenanigans that the insurance companies are starting in response to the ACA….while before they could use pre-existing conditions to screw over people…now they have to get more creative to screw people over…just like when it was exposed that every major insurer had whole departments whose sole purpose was to deny claims. Now, they are trying some new stuff…like sending letters to people whose policies are granfathered under the law saying they have to cancel and choose a new policy…and then only offering them plans that are many times more than what they were paying while making sure they never mention the exchanges where they have to compete on price….or the short sighted ploy of leaving a state completely so they don’t have to compete on price and the collusion that comes with it…where more than one company leaves a market to ensure there is only one or two companies left to compete so they can raise the prices and feed at the government trough with the subsidies that are available to the individual purchaser. I do feel good that the conversation has started to come back to single payer, Medicare for all to cut these damn crooks out of the gravy train…maybe we should root for the law to fail so we can take the house back and then get single payer…geez…