Nothing run by the US government is 'low cost and high quality' On Friday, May 1, 2009, Judah McAuley <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 11:53 AM, Robert Munn <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> This congresswoman admits that the goal of the single payer health care >> system supporters is to destroy the private health insurance industry. Is >> that really what we want? I thought reform was about providing basic care to >> everyone and more choice for consumers, not mandating another huge federal >> bureaucracy. > > Yes, that is really what I want. Or rather, I want health care > coverage for every American and I want it run efficiently and with the > best combination of low cost and high quality. If the private health > insurance industry can do that, awesome. It has had a significant > amount of time, however, in which to try and do that and has failed > spectacularly. > > If the health insurance industry can come up with the best plan that > meets our goals then I'm all for it. I am not for keeping them in > business for the sake of keeping them in business. We do not owe any > industry a profit or continued existence in this country. If the > government can do a better job of meeting the requirements than > private industry, then private industry loses. If private industry can > do it better, then I'm in favor of private industry. > > You seem to take it as a given that having government in charge of > something is inherently bad. I do not agree. There is nothing > inherently good or bad about government. I don't care who does it so > long as it gets done. The private health insurance industry is a > spectacularly bad deal for America thus far. There is good reason to > believe that a single payer government plan would be much better. I'm > open to hearing from private insurance on their plans and I'm sure > given their billions of dollars that we will hear extensively. > > Let them make their case for survival. If they cannot, then they are > off to the dustbin of history like the rest of the dinosaurs. > >
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