Over the past few weeks I’ve seen snippets and clips of people complaining about the health care bill Obama has proposed and I honestly haven’t read the bill nor kept up with most of the discussion on it because I’m really tired of watching MSNBC wackos and Fox News wackos nonsense all the time but I did hear something about some alleged “death panels” on one of these sound bites while I was flipping through channels.

I did a little research and found that the death panels are nothing more than end of life counseling by doctors and if I’m mistaken perhaps someone can correct me but I then ran across this article on CNBC regarding new “exotic” investments Wall Street is eager to bank roll.

The bankers plan to buy “life settlements,” life insurance policies that ill and elderly people sell for cash — $400,000 for a $1 million policy, say, depending on the life expectancy of the insured person. Then they plan to “securitize” these policies, in Wall Street jargon, by packaging hundreds or thousands together into bonds. They will then resell those bonds to investors, like big pension funds, who will receive the payouts when people with the insurance die.

The earlier the policyholder dies, the bigger the return — though if people live longer than expected, investors could get poor returns or even lose money.

So clearly, behind the scenes there is a huge profit motive from Wall Street banks to incentivize the early demise of the elderly and what better way to do so than though the health care system?  The article claims that the earlier the elderly die, the bigger the profit to the investor, how quaint.   I told a friend not too long ago that I stopped believing in coincidences a long time ago, too many things all seem to be inter-related on some level and I find the timing between the controversial health care plan and Wall Street too convenient and too timely.    Sometimes, free market capitalism makes me sick.