How doctors and insurers are like a passive-aggressive spouse

Many years ago, long before my hair started greying, I hung out with a charismatic social worker who was once a champion runner.
K, as I'll call him here and now, had a distinct charm, a way with the ladies that I could only dream of having. He was neither rich nor handsome, and his once-athletic frame had been painted over by a middle-age paunch. But he was whip smart and sensitive to women's concerns. Apparently, that goes a long way with some members of the distaff set.
One day, at his apartment, I overheard a message on his answering machine. It was from a married woman he knew and went something like this: "K, I'm sorry but I can't go to the party tonight, X [her husband] got wind of it and came up with a million reasons why I shouldn't go."
X, of course, wasn't concerned about his wife's well-being. He was just worried K might steal his wife. X was thinking only of himself and his own interests.
I thought of this event the other day while watching a TV news story about opposition to the "public option" in U.S. health care proposed by the Obama administration.
The American Medical Association and the insurance sector are opposed because, well, they like the status quo. It's been quite profitable for them.
They're like that spouse in my story. They will devise and put forth a million reasons why the people and government should not pursue the public option.
And their motives are entirely selfish. They don't care about the people's well-being. They care only about themselves.
Don't listen to them, America. Don't listen to them.