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To: quehubo who wrote (118900)	8/19/2009 10:03:51 PM
From: Sam	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 543104

You do realize that the USPO is in financial dire straights and the they have a monopoly on first class mail to your mail box?] I imagine some private insurers for the very few who could afford premium coverage would survive. So how does a private insurer compete against a plan the government can offer when the government can tell the medical industry this is what we will pay? Q--the PO is dire straights in good part due to the web--people just aren't using it anymore. It has on the whole done a good job over the years at delivering the mail, keeping the cost reasonable, and at the same time providing a lot of good paying jobs to people. If there is a public option, the health insurance industry will shrink. The medical care industry will have some difficult times adjusting to lower prices. But from what I have read, there will be some sort of phase in to try to buffer those adjustments. How else would we get a health care system with fewer costs? As Kierkegaard might have said, Whether we get the public option or we don't get the public option, there will be suffering. Sooner or later.