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Politics : A US National Health Care System?

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To: skinowski who wrote (7474)	7/9/2009 3:05:34 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) of 42652

The only logical sense in creating a "public" option" is to have it eat up the competition. Otherwise, it makes zero sense - it would be just another run of the mill "honest" insurance co. However, with the full political and financial support from the government, it will "evolve" into being the ONLY option. Same was done by Roosevelt in the 1930's, with the Tennessee Valley Authority. THe Prez felt that utilities were too important to be left in the hands of greedy capitalists. TVA was created to "compete". So they did - until the private companies (led by Wendell Wilkie) in the end had to sell themselves to the TVA. It is a good analogy. I think it is unconscionable to sell at as something different from what they know it really is. As you say, there is precedent, however. It just seems to me they're not even TRYING to find a solution that doesn't involve a government takeover. This is where the Rs have failed miserably, in that they COULD be proposing alternatives. Instead, they're just waiting and hoping that the president's plan disintegrates.

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