Obama Healthcare Is A Nightmare
I love how the Obama administration keeps saying that nobody will be forced to switch plans. This just isn’t true. Here is why: Private insurers will not have the ability to compete with a taxpayer funded plan. The government can run its plan at a loss every year indefinitely because they can always borrow money to pay for it or raise taxes to pay for it. Private insurers cannot do this. Private insurers have to actually make a profit.
The government plan will do things like cover procedures that no other private plans would cover. The government plan would accept anyone regardless of circumstances. There is simply no way that a private company could compete with that.
Americans will be forced to switch to the public plan because of the perceived cost savings to them. In reality, there won’t be a cost savings. It’s just that part of the costs will be funded through taxpayer dollars instead of checks made out to an insurance company.
It will cost us more when everything is totaled. There is no way that a government agency can provide services more efficiently than the private sector. There is no way. Plus once all of these procedures are essentially free to the average citizen, you will see a massive increase in the number of procedures being done. The demand for healthcare services will explode. It will be funded on the backs of the American taxpayer.
People Are Underestimating The Significance Of Obama Healthcare Reform
The thing that really scares me about the proposed healthcare reform is how much it is going to expand government entitlements. People have to realize that once we go down this road there is no turning back. This is not something that we can try for a couple of years and then repeal if we don’t like it. The new entitlement will be permanent.
The way our American political elections work, it virtually guarantees that any politician who would propose removing an entitlement such as this would be committing political suicide. Our politicians are power hungry by nature. There is no way you will get a majority of them to vote for something that will cause them to be voted out of office. They just won’t have the political will.
Look at other entitlements that are broken. Will the politicians ever abolish them? I think not. Welfare and Social security come to mind.
Anyone with half a brain would not support this government takeover of healthcare
Don’t do it people. Do not support any plan that involves the government competing with the private sector. It will most certainly lead to a government healthcare monopoly. It will lead to a system where we all sit around complaining about how great it was before we let the socialists take over our country. We will be talking about the good old days when you knew your doctor by name.
The House bill involves cutting 500 billion from a giant goverment entitlement program. It appears we CAN cut these programs. Still trying to figure out shy republicans are against a cut in medicare.
We have had publicly funded universities for hundreds of years and they seem OK. You probably went to one. Post office vs UPS compete with parcel services. That seems OK. Public/private competition also exists in trash collection, ambulance services, high school education, airplane parts manufacturing, defense contracting and hundreds of other industries. Often works great.
We are cut welfare in the 90’s. We’re looking at cutting medicare now. Public programs contract all the time.
Futhermore, Fox News and the CBO have reported that the Republican bill would only insure 3 million people.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/11/05/house-gop-health-reduce-uninsured-million/
Webster,
Those examples you provided are all areas where government competition has proven a failure, not a success. It costs more per student to educate a student in the public sector than it costs per student to educate in the private sector. Look at Catholic schools.
The postal service is going broke because they cannot compete on par with private shippers like UPS and Fedex. Plus they can’t even come close to delivering the same quality of service.
Have you ever seen a UPS man at work? They hustle and get paid well for doing it. I don’t know about you but I have never seen my mailman jog anywhere.
Trash collection is cheaper when outsourced to private companies which is why you see so many cities do it. The ones who do not are primarily union controlled Democrat administrations. Get the picture.
Ambulance services are also cheaper outsourced. I have no idea where you are getting your information from. We just went through a big fight over this where I am from. Private sector ambulance is way less costly.
Universites operate on a combination of public and private funding. They are not examples of public vs. private. IF you are talking about high end private universities then you are not comparing apples to apples.
The simple truth is that the private sector is more efficient, hands down, no comparison.