Stay classy, insurance industry!

A Guardian Life Insurance Company executive explaining how people with health insurance who actually use that health insurance are enemies to be squashed. Especially those societal health care leeches we call "muscular dystrophy patients."

Ian Pearl has fought for his life every day of his 37 years. Confined to a wheelchair and hooked to a breathing tube, the muscular dystrophy victim refuses to give up.

But his insurance company already has.

Legally barred from discriminating against individuals who submit large claims, the New York-based insurer simply canceled lines of coverage altogether in entire states to avoid paying high-cost claims like Mr. Pearl's.

In an e-mail, one Guardian Life Insurance Co. executive called high-cost patients such as Mr. Pearl "dogs" that the company could "get rid of."

How dare this sick man try to infringe on the main objectives of a health insurance company (profit) with his pissant concerns that they provide the health insurance coverage he pays for. Some people just make me sick, though let me make it clear: not sick enough to use my health insurance. If I had any.

Someone want to remind me why we're working so hard to preserve the system of private health insurance?