After voting against H.R. 3962 - Affordable Health Care for America Act, Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today made the following statement:

"We have been led to believe that we must make our health care choices only within the current structure of a predatory, for-profit insurance system which makes money not providing health care. We cannot fault the insurance companies for being what they are. But we can fault legislation in which the government incentivizes the perpetuation, indeed the strengthening, of the for-profit health insurance industry, the very source of the problem.

Harvard Medical School researchers study finds that nearly 45,000 people die in the U.S. each year largely due to lack of health insurance. "We're losing more Americans every day because of inaction . . . than drunk driving and homicide combined." Dr. David Himmelstein, a co-author of the study and an associate professor of medicine at Harvard, said in an interview with Reuters.

Though I'm a single-payer advocate, the industry shenanigans with regard to all we're likely to get--the "Public Option" is fascinating to watch. Wendell Potter offers more great insight.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Supporters of President Barack Obama's drive to remake health care are pushing back against a dire report from the insurance industry warning of hefty new costs for consumers from the latest legislation.