Quote Originally Posted by Total_Blender View Post
I don't see how a mandate to buy insurance from a private system could be interpreted as "socialist". Its a gimme to private insurance companies. Myself I don't see whats wrong with starting a public pool to compete with the private companies for those of us who can't access the private system. That would be more "socialist" than what is being proposed currently.
Simple yes or no questions, no rhetoric be honest

1)do you believe the federal govt can operate without making a "profit"
2)do you think any private entity can compete with the federal govt?
3)do you think it is fair to collect taxes for 4 years before giving out any benefits?
4) do you think it is honest to have 10 year projections on cost of healthcare with only 6 years of benefits being given out?
5) do you think introducing 30 million people to the system will cause costs to go up?

After the yes or no answers on that you may answer the followng:
1) how does a private business operate in competition with the govt? Do you think they can? Give an example. My example would be the usps vs fedex/ups. Usps is sometimes cheaper but their service and reliability sucks, and they are almost bankrupt. Who runs a better business? Private sector.

2) how will one keep their current insurance if the goal of the govt option is to be cheaper? If this is simply about cost, doesn't it make sense that a person/business would drop te private carrier to use the govt option?

3) tell me why costs are high and how the govt plan will keep them down. Cite examples


I don't want links to other pages I want your opinions.