Is this why health insurance is so expensive?

Does this not piss you off? If the health insurance companies would quit lobbying and quit giving money to Congress, they could save us some money. In turn there wouldn't be an outcry from the left about a government option. http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2009/06/… Notice how much contributions have increased in recent years, then go look at how much premiums have gone up recently. To those saying the government is there to fix our problems, they're PART OF THE PROBLEM.
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That's money well spent to protect the hundreds of billions in profits those companies make ripping the public off. Yes, the government is part of the problem, but not government administration, but rather the law-makers. This is what happens when you have idiocy rulings from the Supreme Court like "corporations are actual people" and "money is speech." Make all elections 100% publicly funded, and don't allow corporations to meddle in the politics of human beings, and you'd see government, once again, by the people and for the people.
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