And the masses turn out to protect their masters

When Amy Goodman recommends an article in Business Week, we gotta check it out. Says Chad Terhune by telephone:

The insurance companies have already been successful on three key fronts:

• They've killed the public option, so they won't have to compete with the government.
• They've managed to whittle down the definition of minimal coverage.
• They've opened up new government subsidized opportunities (acting as coops, administering prevention programs, etc.) for UnitedHealth Group, Aetna, and WellPoint).

What Terhune describes as a strategy is looking more like a fait accompli: "whatever overhaul Congress passes this year will help rather than hurt huge insurance companies."