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8.07.2009

Is CPR dedicated to maintainting for-profit health insurance status quo

According to CPR, they are:

...a non-profit organization dedicated to educating and informing the public about the principles of patients rights and, in doing so, advancing the debate over health care reform. Those principles include choice, competition, accountability and responsibility. We believe the path to effective health care reform must be based on the patient-doctor relationship and not from a top-down, big government perspective. Anything that interferes with an individual’s freedom to consult their doctor of choice to make health care decisions defeats the purpose of meaningful health care reform.
CPR is run by the previous CEO of Columbia/HCA, now known as HCA and is a privately held company that is:
...the nation’s leading provider of healthcare.
Scott was apparently forced out, in part, due to the 10 year DOJ investigation into fraud which the company eventually agreed to pay a $1.7B fine. That is billion:
LARGEST HEALTH CARE FRAUD CASE IN U.S. HISTORY SETTLED HCA INVESTIGATION NETS RECORD TOTAL OF $1.7 BILLION at DOJ.
Surely Scott has no influence with HCA. He certainly does at CPR since he apparently runs it.

Why is an organization allegedly dedicated to educating and informing the public about the principles of patients rights pushing the talking point of:
The public option will kill competition, increase health care premiums, lead to the delay and denial of needed medical care and put bureaucrats in charge of health care rather than the doctor. The public option tramples on patients' rights and puts government in charge of your health care. The public option is patient enemy number one and we must stop it.
The talking point is being pushed by CPR at their website, with blog posts, tweets & Facebooking. According to them, on their own website, they are not organizing people to come out and discuss heath care at Town Hall Meetings.

Why is CPR fighting competition with an attack stating [t]he public option tramples on patients' rights?

Does that mean the status quo of a for-profit hospital system and a for-profit health insurance system that has been increasing premiums at multiples of other industries price increases protects patients' rights?

No where on their site do I find an explanation of how for-profit insurance companies currently dictate care.

Over & over they strongly imply you & your doctor alone dictates your care.

If their true mission is dedicated to educating and informing the public about the principles of patients rights and, in doing so, advancing the debate over health care reform, why wouldn't they choose to educate instead of choosing to try to kill the public option?