AP reported on the following
"WASHINGTON - The health insurance industry offered Tuesday for the first time to curb its controversial practice of charging higher premiums to people with a history of medical problems. The offer from America's Health Insurance Plans and the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association is a potentially significant shift in the debate over reforming the nation's health care system to rein in costs and cover an estimated 48 million uninsured people. It was contained in a letter to key senators."
This is how afraid they are of the anger in US society turning in to what amounts to an anti-capitalist movement. An army of lawyers nor the Democratic Party under "stable" market conditions would not have been able to accomplish this.
But what is more important is this: This has come from them and the working class has done nothing in the form of direct action or strikes; it is a preemptive concession. It is a gesture from an opponent on the defensive and afraid.
It is the time for us to recognize this and go on the offensive.
Workers will see this, even workers who claim they are not political. Even if there is no immediate action in response to it, it will not go unnoticed and is part of the slow development of a new movement against capital.
The greatest tragedy is the absence of leadership. But this will be overcome also as the situation ripens.
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