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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TimF who wrote (7164)	6/23/2009 2:20:25 PM
From: i-node	1 Recommendation Respond to of 42652

A government takeover isn't competition. And if the government program isn't subsidized and otherwise given advantages, if it acts like an insurance company in a competitive market (which is unlikely IMO) than it doesn't significantly add to competition, its just one additional "company" in a field with many of them. Obama was drilled on this earlier today, and he started down that path -- that is, the government plan would be just like any other insurance company, out there competing... utter nonsense. You can't call it competition when one entity has limited resources and the other has a bottomless pit of money. My concern is that they will get the legislation passed by making promises as to funding and reimbursements that will later be revised. There is, literally, nothing that can be done to make a government program simply a "competitor" to private enterprise. Even if you could do it temporarily, it would be a matter of months until they were tinkering with it to give the program a competitive advantage, thereby driving out private plans. The public needs to keep its eyes on the ball here...what they want is single payer, they've admitted it, and they've admitted the public option is simply an intermediate step in getting there.

To: TimF who wrote (7164)	6/23/2009 2:20:46 PM
From: John Koligman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

Tim, I think of you and I-node as those two characters in Deep Impact, standing on the beach just after the 'big rock' hit the ocean, and the giant wave is on it's way <gggg>. Look I hear even Norm Coleman has now joined something called the Jewish Republican Committee as some kind of lobbyist, and his staff has disbanded. Let the Dems get their programs thru, and if they mess up the Repubs can get back in to 'clean' things up. Bush left the Obomber two wars, an economy in shambles, and no coherent energy or healthcare policy, so the Obomber should be given his shot...