just a little rant while I procrastinate
The new york times had an article the other day the jist of which was this. a key part (and one of the best parts) of the obama agenda has been setting up a government run healthcare system that will compete with the private insurers. Insurers say that this will put them out of buisness because the government will run the system cheaper than private insurance as they already do (medicare has much lower costs than private insurance). excuse me, isn't that the point? Aren't you just making an argument for public healthcare? If the government can do it cheaper and better than why not let the government do it, because there are damn few things the federal government does cheaper than the private sector. but some how this is lost in the debate. how can politicians with out getting hanged by their constituencies make an argument for more expensive healthcare?