Two-Faced

Via Yglesias, apparently the major health insurance corporations like Blue Cross Blue Shield are playing the game - publicly appearing to cooperate and favor health care reform while simultaneously supporting far-right efforts to ban reform as unconstitutional.

I don't know why this kinda surprises me, but it shouldn't.  As Oscar Wilde once said, "Consistency is the last resort of the unimaginative," and who could be more unimaginative than the heads of corporations who are focused on taking as much money from people before they die and definitely don't want the status quo to change, even at the detriment of the people they serve as a whole.  And to put their lot in with those on the right who are just looking to score political points rather than fix what is wrong with our country is just shameful.

It's funny how the mind relates things together, but when I heard how "two-faced" these insurance companies are being and who they're hedging their bets on to come out on top in this struggle, my mind flashed to this exchange from The Dark Knight:

Bruce Wayne: Targeting me won't get their money back. I knew the mob wouldn't go down without a fight, but this is different. They crossed the line.

Alfred Pennyworth: You crossed the line first, sir. You squeezed them, you hammered them to the point of desperation. And in their desperation they turned to a man they didn't fully understand.

Like I said, funny how the mind relates things.