Quote Originally Posted by tony View Post
Has the USPS put UPS and FedEx out of business? We all know the lesser quality that the USPS has but if you're cash strapped they get the job done.. the initiative is to get citizens who cannot afford health coverage to have it, not to line the profit margins of insurance companies.
Usps is bankrupt , has terrible service, loses packages at a rate of 20% more than fedex and ups, etc

so no they didn't put ups or fedex out of business , but te real question is do you want healthcare system setup as well as usps?

Also the comparison is not accurate. Usps fedex and ups all have seperate equipment and transportation means. You pay for a package to be shipped by usps it gets shipped by usps employees. You don't pay usps prices and get fedex service.

Conversly, insurance works the opposite. "dr smith" accepts aetna, blue cross blue shield, kaiser etc. Now he will accept the govt pool aka govt option. He will have to. So now you will pay "usps" prices for the same level of care private insurers offer. That will put them out of business. So you'll have a few effects

1) massive layoffs and unemployment from those companies gping under
2) doctors being reimbursed less for their work meaning less pay to doctors
3) 20-30 million people getting healthcare from a system run as well as usps
4) the govt doesn't need to make a DIME. They can operate 11 trillion in the hole so no private company will be able to compete
5) 30 million new patients with an already short medical staff means longer wait times to get care
6) costs will continue to rise as this bill does nothing to address the COST issues , it only provides access by spending another trillion-2 trillion dollars

I've always said this "you will have healthcare at the cost of higher taxes and lack of a job"

expect inflation to wipe out any govt entitlement Obama passes as he spends us into oblivion.good luck America