What the insurance industry is supporting is not health care reform. It is a preservation of the status quo. They most likely do support what the Senate has decided to do with regard to expanding Medicare. But that alone is not health care reform. Expanding Medicare to everyone would be health care reform. Expanding it only to people 55 and older is not health care reform. That is what you are saying they are trying to do - shed the weight of the baby boomers. But that is not health care reform. That is a preservation of the status quo with the only difference being that they get more corporate welfare.

I repeat, what the health care industry is peddling is not health care reform - it is a preservation of the status quo with more corporate welfare for them. It is the opposite of health care reform.

To expand Medicare to everyone would be single payer not for profit, which is exactly what Kucinich wants. But what the Senate is doing is destroying any chance of real health care reform, and that is precisely what the insurance industry wants. Because if we had real health care reform, they wouldn't be able to make such obscene profits at the expense of the taxpayers, and as long as it is possible for corporations to buy lawmakers, they will get whatever they want.