No government-run healthcare, shout opponents of any public option for a proposed national medical-insurance program.
Forgetting, of course, that Medicare, Medicaid and health programs for armed forces personnel, veterans and other public employees—including members of Congress—are run successfully and efficiently by government.
Opponents of the public option don’t want bureaucrats making health-care decisions.
They forget that corporate bean-counters—not physicians—now make health-care decisions under private insurance plans.
Opponents say government programs will ration care. Hey, rationing already thrives in the private for-profit plans.
Let’s face it. Health-insurance companies simply don’t want to compete with less-expensive government-run programs that operate without profit motives, obscenely paid executives and greedy stockholders.
True, America does provide the best health care in the world. Tell that to the 45 million Americans who can’t afford it. (2 AUGUST 2009)
