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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: Road Walker who wrote (10021)10/1/2009 4:00:50 PM
From: Lane32 Recommendations   of 42652
 
Can you name some?

You betcha. Regulation. Calcified bureaucracy. Creeping entitlements. Day-late-and-a-dollar-short decision making. Popular rather than business-minded decision making. Influence peddling. Lobby pressure. That's just off the top of my head.

in the next breath say if there was a public option it would drive all the private insurers out of business.

I never said that. I am on record as saying the privates would mop up the public if it were a fair fight. The problem is that it wouldn't be because the government would prop up the public and/or cripple the privates.

I am on the record as not being opposed to a public option if it were done as a demonstration project. But there's no hint that it would be done that way.

If it's bad people won't choose it.

If it's artificially cheap, people will choose it.
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