Health insurance industry plays fear.

It’s officially the people versus the corporations when it comes to health care reform; the insurance industry is now claiming that they will raise rates if comprehensive reform passes.

Let’s call this what it is: the death roll. The industry has realized that it’s losing the war to continue to profit off of sick Americans, and they’re throwing everything they’ve got at reform to try and keep their outrageous bounty. This is fear, at its best.

The good part is, however, that we now know we’re on the right track. An opt-out public option is continuing to gain steam, and other items of reform such as an end to the outrageous citation of “preexisting conditions” are already in the bag. If we stay on the current track, we’ll pass meaningful reform in a matter of weeks. We cannot allow the insurance industry to scare us out of our health and our future as a nation.

Instead, let’s keep fighting the good fight. Let the only one in fear be the insurance industry.