There is no comparison between the "competition" between FEDEX and UPS on the one hand and the USPS on the other, and the health care "insurance" system Obama wants to set up. In the first place his argument blows up in his face, as FEDEX and UPS do a great job without taxpayer assistance, while the federal government can't run the USPS worth a damn. I just found out that it takes five days (!) for first class mail to get from San Diego, CA to Boise, ID. If the federal government can't run the postal service, mis-estimates the "cash for clunkers" cost by 1/3, and can't run Social Security or Medicare without them being eaten up by fraud, what makes anyone think that they can run our health care system?
Actually Obama does not intend for the "private option" to survive - the cards are stacked against it. What private employer is going to continue to provide health care insurance when he/she can just pay a fine of 8% of their payroll and put their employees on the public plan? There was also a provision that private insurers could sign no new insureds after January 1 of the year the health care bill becomes effective. It is highly doubtful that the private option would survive for even five years if one of these plans were adopted.
If this were actually about cutting and con...
Actually Obama does not intend for the "private option" to survive - the cards are stacked against it. What private employer is going to continue to provide health care insurance when he/she can just pay a fine of 8% of their payroll and put their employees on the public plan? There was also a provision that private insurers could sign no new insureds after January 1 of the year the health care bill becomes effective. It is highly doubtful that the private option would survive for even five years if one of these plans were adopted.
If this were actually about cutting and con...
There is no comparison between the "competition" between FEDEX and UPS on the one hand and the USPS on the other, and the health care "insurance" system Obama wants to set up. In the first place his argument blows up in his face, as FEDEX and UPS do a great job without taxpayer assistance, while the federal government can't run the USPS worth a damn. I just found out that it takes five days (!) for first class mail to get from San Diego, CA to Boise, ID. If the federal government can't run the postal service, mis-estimates the "cash for clunkers" cost by 1/3, and can't run Social Security or Medicare without them being eaten up by fraud, what makes anyone think that they can run our health care system?
Actually Obama does not intend for the "private option" to survive - the cards are stacked against it. What private employer is going to continue to provide health care insurance when he/she can just pay a fine of 8% of their payroll and put their employees on the public plan? There was also a provision that private insurers could sign no new insureds after January 1 of the year the health care bill becomes effective. It is highly doubtful that the private option would survive for even five years if one of these plans were adopted.
If this were actually about cutting and controlling the costs of health care, the top item on the list would have been tort reform - putting a cap on general damages in medical malpractice cases and making it "loser pay", so that trial lawyers don't get a free ride, run up tens of thousands in defense fees and then simply walk away if they lose.
Obama has, in the past, been very fortthright in his admissions that he wants a single payer system, and he has always said that he can't get it right away but it will follow in a decade, 15 or 20 years!
Hollywood billionaire mogul David Geffen once said of the Clintons, when he switched from supporting Hillary to Obama, that "All politicians lie, it's just that they (the Clintons) do it so easily." Take a look Mr. Geffen, your new guy Barack Obama has them topped, by a mile!
(more)Actually Obama does not intend for the "private option" to survive - the cards are stacked against it. What private employer is going to continue to provide health care insurance when he/she can just pay a fine of 8% of their payroll and put their employees on the public plan? There was also a provision that private insurers could sign no new insureds after January 1 of the year the health care bill becomes effective. It is highly doubtful that the private option would survive for even five years if one of these plans were adopted.
If this were actually about cutting and controlling the costs of health care, the top item on the list would have been tort reform - putting a cap on general damages in medical malpractice cases and making it "loser pay", so that trial lawyers don't get a free ride, run up tens of thousands in defense fees and then simply walk away if they lose.
Obama has, in the past, been very fortthright in his admissions that he wants a single payer system, and he has always said that he can't get it right away but it will follow in a decade, 15 or 20 years!
Hollywood billionaire mogul David Geffen once said of the Clintons, when he switched from supporting Hillary to Obama, that "All politicians lie, it's just that they (the Clintons) do it so easily." Take a look Mr. Geffen, your new guy Barack Obama has them topped, by a mile!
USPS -- inefficient, bloated with bureaucracy, unresponsive to the market, and 50 years behind the times, is the PERFECT example of why government needs to stay out of health care.
The other two run much more efficiently, and are NOT in the mess the Post office is.
Its that simple!!
much better job than government.....HAHAHAHA.......
never leave home without your Tellie !!!!!
Very simple; post office - profit funneled back to the federal budget.
FedEx (non-union) and UPS (union) - profit funneled to these bad, bad capitalistic, corrupt, corporate greedy CEO's and only small portion of the profit is funneled to the federal budget.
Federal taxes paid by post office - none.
Federal taxes paid by greedy corporations (do not know the amount but even if it is $1.00, it is better than none).
Burden on taxpayers - post office - $6,000,000,000.00.
Burden on taxpayers - FedEx and UPS - contribution of $1.00 (forget payroll taxes).
Crooked insurance companies right now contributing to the federal budget $1.00 a year.
Public health insurance option taking $100,000,000,000.00 out of federal budget for the next 10 years and beyond.
I am not a math wiz but something does not click with this picture since I am and will be a contributor to the federal budget for the next 10 years and beyond.
how truly when UPS and the others cannot set up equal postal style delivery options.
Look at the 2 vids.
That is kept and assgned to the Postal Service alone.
look at the videos
If you don't want to see the video then admit you do not care.
I am speechless!!
the man made our case.. and he did not even know it until his handlers had to take valium drips..
shows how sheltered this idiot is.. or dumb as a brick....OK BOTH...