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Intershame On: Dan Boren |
Opposition Based on Special Interests
07/29/2009
Hi Dan. Why is it you don't support a public option?
"The problem," he argued, "is in a state like Oklahoma, where we have a lot of private insurers, you have a public option come in and it drives everything else out and the only thing left is the public option and then you have rationed care."
Oh, I see. It's because the business interests in your state don't want to compete with an affordable plan.
Enjoy...
"The problem," he argued, "is in a state like Oklahoma, where we have a lot of private insurers, you have a public option come in and it drives everything else out and the only thing left is the public option and then you have rationed care."
Oh, I see. It's because the business interests in your state don't want to compete with an affordable plan.
Enjoy...
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Comments
- 1022 days agoThe public option is actually not competition. Rather, it is a government monopoly. The government will have nearly unlimited resources to undercut the private sector (this is their purpose after all) and will become the only option. This is basic economics.
- 1022 days agowbt2009 is an idiot. out of one side of their mouths, these teabaggers say the government is too inefficient and bureaucratic to deliver health care, and out of the other, they say that private insurers cannot compete with the "gubment" plan. pick a straw man and stick to it.
- 1022 days agoKevcol, let me put in a simple way. You (private insurance) open a lemonade stand and charge 25 cents to pay for your materials 20 cents and 5 cents for profit. Now, the rich kid (government) across the street decides to offer lemonade cheaper and opens a stand. He offers his lemonade for 10 cents. And although he has the same cost for materials (20 cents) as you and pays his people 10 cents to run the stand, he can always go to his dad (taxpayers) to make up the money (-20 cents) he loses on each sale. You can not compete and will not take long before you are out of business. Get it?
- 1022 days agohollerout, that only works if the cheap lemonade is made by a competent lemonade maker and doesn't taste like ass. If your lemonade sucks, very few people will buy it.
- 1022 days agoMore to the point, the actual analogy is You (private insurance) have costs around 5c and profits around 20c, and won't sell it to anyone who can't afford it. Now the so-called rich kid (government) comes in and says no, I can offer everyone the same lemonade for 6c, and no one will be turned away, but everyone has to buy a small share. But that's ok, hollerout can misrepresent the financial position of insurance companies and the government if he likes. That's standard right-wing tactics.
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