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Ok, this is in the ‘we should have seen it coming’ category.

In a country where everyone is a victim of something, and proud of it, we find this UPI story on how it is really the insured who are now the exploited ones in health care. According to a couple of Duke University law professors — need I go any further — the health care system operates more like a “robber baron than like the Robin Hood.”

“The system works like an extortion scheme, which forces consumers to choose to pay what the system demands of them or put their families’ health at risk,” said Clark Havighurst, a Duke Law School professor, “They’re the victims who seem to be ignored when everyone wants to talk about the uninsured.”

Is it me or does anyone else smell lawsuit here?

Of course the insured apparently are not aware enough of this oppression since they continued to demand more more benefits. The Duke professor thinks this is because employees don’t see the real costs of health care, as the money they pay usually gets pulled directly out of their salaries.”They have a much bigger stake in this than they know,” he said.

Most of us do know the stakes here, but first just a little reality check. Health care costs are high. Check. Everyone needs to be covered. Check. No one likes to pay bills. Check. Something needs to change. Check. Victims R Us: Contingency fee only 40 percent. Che… Well not so fast.

Let’s just say that it’s time to get serious in health care. The blame game with its self-serving rhetoric is getting us nowhere. We should give it up. We have seen the enemy in health care and they look a lot like you and me.