Sanity
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Joined: 6/14/2006 From: Nampa, Idaho USA Status: offline
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Whats wrong with your "theory" is that government isn't a competitor, it doesn't compete in the true sense of the meaning, it just throws ever larger sums of taxpayer dollars at any problems that arise. And contrary to popular belief there isn't an unlimited supply of "free" government money to be thrown around - eventually the bills will all come due. The private sector can't possibly compete with such government insanity, especially when its their own business taxes that are funding what you are calling the government "competition". (I'm sure you're aware that a part of the current plan is a measure forcing private insurers to help pay for at least a part of the government system, which, what kind of "competition" is that. That's like running a marathon with the fattest runner on your back part way). Something else thats worrisome about the Democrat's proposal is that a large part of the "free" government money they will be throwing at the health care problem will be borrowed from China. Before long the Chinese will stop lending, and there is a growing consensus that soon the dollar will be so weak and so worthless that the Treasury's Wiemar printing presses won't be able to keep up with the demand. By that point the Democrats "hope" seems to be that the free government health insurance will have monopolized the health care industry, having driven the legitimate competitors out of business, and the public will then be stuck with a broken and bankrupt system. quote:
ORIGINAL: Anarrus Sanity, you're smarter than that, yet you misunderstood the question he was asking..or understood it yet totally side-stepped it with your answer. I don't believe he was asking you to answer if taxpayer funded bureaucracies can funtion even if incompetent..we all know the answer to that. What he asked, and I'd like to see the answer as well from you, is if according to free market theory, if government run medical care (as a medical insurance option) isn't "cutting it" or up to par then wouldn't that drive people to the private sector for the better care they want (in the form of medical insurance)? Because in theory, the competitor who provides the best in service, product, etc. reaps the most business. Seems to me according to that theory, and if government run health care (or insurance) would be so inept, terrible and incompetent, then the private health insurance industry would have nothing to fear. People would be flocking to their product in droves.
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