Debating the President’s Portsmouth pitch (part 17)
13 August
We’re in the home stretch.
THE PRESIDENT: I mean, if you think about — if you think about it, UPS and FedEx are doing just fine, right? No, they are. It’s the Post Office that’s always having problems.
I think the President was using this example to demonstrate that private firms can compete with the government. It came out wrong. He undermined the case for more government control, and especially for a public option, by pointing out that the government cannot deliver the mail and stay on budget.
Other posts in this series:
- The President’s overpromise that everyone can keep their health plan
- Putting the government in charge of your health insurance
- Waiting in line
- Government-mandated benefits
- Preventive care does not save money (in the aggregate)
- The House bill would increase short-term, 10th year, and long-term budget deficits
- The President was incorrect — AARP opposes the bill
- The bills would take Medicare savings needed for solvency and spend them on a new entitlement
- Medicare is not a good example of government-run health care because Medicare is fiscally unsustainable
- Even if the public option drops out of legislation, other parts of these bills would put private insurance under government control
- The President says the public option will keep private insurers honest at the same time he proposes cutting payments to private insurers competing with the Medicare public option
- The pending bills would move more cost-benefit decisions from insurers to people chosen by the government
- Guaranteed renewal and guaranteed issue
- The President says “we may be able to get even more than” the $80 B of budgetary savings that the pharmaceutical industry thought was a ceiling promised by the White House.
- The President says he’s not “promoting” a single-payer plan, but the only concern he raises is a disruptive transition.
- Many examples suggest that the government cannot compete on a level playing field with private firms.
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When I hear the daily spin of the MSM, I sometimes wonder…am I really living in a free country? The MSM doesn't care about the truth…they twist facts and mislead people for their own agenda…I'm disgusted to see what has become of journalism….when they start to lose arguments they cry any "…ism" that ppl might buy as an excuse….it's sickening….ppl, please arm yourselves with the facts, organize, be considerate and take the high road….but don't be trampled by unbelievable lies that surround us today on every issue.
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I saw an ad on TV yesterday by AARP endorsing the President's healthcare bill. Is AARP playing both sides of the field here?