Professor Utopia Makes the Case Against Government Healthcare
August 11th, 2009 . by JosephAnd a hearty “thank you” for making the point so eloquently, oh Beloved Leader. Two points about this particular clip.
He flat out admits that private industry (UPS and FedEx) do a *better* job than the government (the USPS). “The post office always has the problems,” he says. If the government option can’t deliver an effing PACKAGE better than private industry, how can we possibly expect it to do a passable job of delivering health care, for crying out loud!?
The second point, which Professor Utopia inexplicably omits from his response, is that there is actually a Federal Law on the books forbidding private firms like UPS and FedEx from competing with the government when it comes to delivering First Class Mail. The Prez himself said private industry competes more effectively than the government, when they’re allowed to. One wonders what would happen if they opened up the playing field completely. Is the government so afraid of being shown up as complete incompetents?
Well, maybe that’s too obvious a question to even ask…
And as far as his repeated point that the current plan wouldn’t undermine private health care, one has to look no further than the first 20 pages. The part where it says that private insurers can’t take on new customers. Won’t destroy the private option? Yeah, right.
