http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090811/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_obama_health_care_overhaul
Apparently the shouters and booers didn't show up to President Obama's latest propaganda dog and pony show - ooops that's town hall meeting. Funny thing - the crowd was carefully screened by the Secret Service beforehand. When the President's personal guard investigates you, knows your name, your address, your family members, where you work, etc, when the White House staff has issued a memo seeking information on people critical of its healthcare proposals (that's "fishy emails" to you dems), when Federal security services - led by paranoid liberals - have labeled conservatives, opponents of abortion, gun rights advocates, anti-illegal immigration groups, former members of the military, for crying out loud, as threats to national security, are you honestly going to rip the President a new one in public? Nah, no possible causal connection there. Great journalism there, AP!
Looking to calm people over the notion that the government option is not a precursor to single-payer (even though Obama has in the past advocated this very thing), Obama likens the "government option" to the Post Office:
"He also disputed the notion that adding a government-run insurance plan into a menu of options from which people could pick would drive private insurers out of business, in effect making the system single-payer by default.
As long as they have a good product and the government plan has to sustain itself through premiums and other non-tax revenue, private insurers should be able to compete with the government plan, Obama said.
"They do it all the time," he said. "UPS and FedEx are doing just fine. ... It's the Post Office that's always having problems."
Gee, Mr. President, if the Post Office is always "having problems," and your government insurance option is like that, do we really really need to invest huge sums of money we don't currently have to fund yet another problematic program? Aren't medicare, medicaid, the veterans administration, the public health service, the DoD healthcare operations, the Congressional healthcare plan and all the other Federal departments of health problematic enough?
Few people die from a postal service with problems. People WILL die untimely deaths if the government option turns out to be an inefficient, corrupt, inequitable operation as bad as some of our public school systems. Your likening the government option to the Post Office really does not inspire me with a whole lot of confidence.
What might change my mind is if you and every other supporter of the government option in Congress and the Senate will make a legally binding promise to be the first enroll yourselves in this program. None of you ever will, though, because though you proclaim that you know what's best for the American People, you well know what is better for yourselves - "Cadillac" insurance policies paid for by our tax dollars.
Somehow I bet your health benefits won't be taxed, either.
