auditor0007
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Obama realizes this also with the government run postal service. I just have to post this on all health care boards. These are HIS words today.
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."
I wonder what problems a government run health care system would entail, hmmmm skyrocketing taxes on everything and everyone, rationing of care, check out the taxes on gasoline in all of the countries who have socialized medicine- go to Ask Jeeves- taxes on gasoline in Italy, see the comparison over the last 20 years, they are more than double ours.
I get tired of the dipsticks out there using the Postal Service as an example. The USPS delivers small letters for a very cheap price. There is hardly a person in this country who doesn't benefit. All the USPS needs to do is raise rates a dime or so and they will be in the black. Besides, it has only been recently that they have begun to operate in the red.
Tell me something, do you think UPS or Fed Ex could deliver a letter for $.42? No fucking way. They'd charge you $2.75. The USPS has tried to reduce costs as much as possible, but the bottom line is that single letter first class mail is killing them because volume has dropped so much in the last ten years. And that is due to the Internet. So now they need to raise rates to compensate. But of course, everyone will bitch about that too.
There are plenty of things the goverenment does wrong and overspends on. The USPS is not one of them. In fact it is a shining star.
As for your example on gasoline taxes in other countries; yes they are high. So tell me something, do you think they really care that they pay an extra $2000 per year for gasoline when they are saving $12,000 or more per year on healthcare? In the countries you are talking about, they don't pay for their healthcare directly. It's paid through taxes, so some things cost more. How about looking at the overall picture. They spend half of what we do, which isn't enough IMO. That is why they lack in some areas of healthcare, but at least they do cover everyone, and with the savings, anyone with a decent income could purchase supplemental insurance.