No, They Are Monsters

Wendell Potter, the former CIGNA employee turned moral whistleblower on our insane health insurance companies, was back on Countdown with Keith Olbermann last night to discuss the latest deleterious trick of his former industry to retain their inhumane profits.

As reports indicate, those heartless robots at the top of our dysfunctional embarrassment for health providing in this country are looking at a way to stop offering child only plans as immediate parts of "Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act" come into effect on Thursday.

Potter has been a wonderful blessing in the emotion driven fight for a true health system for the people over the last year and a half. But his restraint in not labeling his former colleagues in the field "monsters" and just saying their continued actions to deny children coverage is just "part of the system" exonerates them from their crimes.

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

These people who want to find loopholes to further harm the nation's young just for more dollars are "monsters."

They are fully cognizant of what they are doing, even if they are well removed from having any empathy like a regular human being would have.

To label them as just "hard working businessmen and women" who are just trying to do their job and adhere to their system just doesn't tell the full narrative to the public like it needs to be told.

For if the roles were reversed and their children couldn't be provided needed child only plans, then how would the likes of lobbyists Karen Ignagni and her AHIP spokesman Robert Zirkelbach feel about the system then?

But the alternate reality isn't the reality we live in. A reality were we somehow aren't inclined to call "monsters" for what they exactly are.