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“Why would it drive private insurance out of business?,

Oh I don't know. How about government mandates?

1 posted on 06/24/2009 3:34:19 AM PDT by Man50D
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Obama has loads of ignorance to go with his arrogance.


2 posted on 06/24/2009 3:35:56 AM PDT by abclily
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Government Health....will eventually lead to forced abortions and euthanasia. It’s about being “useful” in society.


5 posted on 06/24/2009 3:39:32 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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I’ll tell you what’s not logical.

It’s not logical to expect Obama to understand economics.

What is logical is to expect Obama will make the economy worse.


6 posted on 06/24/2009 3:40:37 AM PDT by reasonisfaith (Liberals have neither the creativity nor the confidence to understand the truth of conservatism)
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Oh yeah, this was the point that I began hollering at the television and had to turn it off.

He doesn't realize that the bottomless pockets of the federal government (also known as taxpayers) will run the private insurers out of business.

7 posted on 06/24/2009 3:44:20 AM PDT by republicangel
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President Barack Obama said it is “not logical” to think that a government-run health care program competing with private health insurers would eventually drive the private firms out of business.

Since Zer0's entire life has been spent as a taker rather than a producer and since he views the Constitution as a "...flawed document..." because it doesn't say what the government must do for the individual, this makes perfect sense.

8 posted on 06/24/2009 3:50:41 AM PDT by Roccus (The Capitol, the White House, the Court House...........America's Axis of Evil)
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>>>> “if we’re going to spend that much money, then it’s going to be largely funded through reallocating dollars that are already in the health care system,” <<<<

“Reallocating” which dollars? From where?


9 posted on 06/24/2009 3:53:39 AM PDT by angkor
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If Zero believe this tripe he is pointing out, it is logical that instead of creating a government health care out of whole cloth, why doesnt the government just buy their health plan from a private carrier.

Obama isnt stupid he just thinks all Americans are. The ones that back him probably are.

He knows better but like before the election, he is lying his butt off, until it’s too late.


10 posted on 06/24/2009 3:54:52 AM PDT by Venturer
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Get in line to see the doctor amigos.

11 posted on 06/24/2009 4:00:38 AM PDT by Rome2000 (Peace is not an option)
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He doesn't understand how government subsidies skew choices in the marketplace? This two-bit Marxist doesn't have a clue about how the free market operates--and he isn't about to contaminate his profound ignorance with the least bit of knowledge.

I don't "fear" government-run health care. Having seen it up close and personal in operation in a few other countries, I LOATHE it.

14 posted on 06/24/2009 4:08:06 AM PDT by behzinlea
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O takes the c out of Amerika.


16 posted on 06/24/2009 4:10:14 AM PDT by taxtruth
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A satan worshiping commie muzzie has no place telling America what is and is not “logical”.

LLS

17 posted on 06/24/2009 4:22:07 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer (hussein will NEVER be my President... NEVER!!!)
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“Why would it drive private insurance out of business? If private insurers say that the marketplace provides the best quality health care; if they tell us that they're offering a good deal, then why is it that the government, which they say can't run anything, suddenly is going to drive them out of business? That's not logical.”

Well, maybe because the government has the sole power to tax everyone in the country to hit its budget and to force doctors to accept its payment schedule or else lose their licenses for the medical takeover.

18 posted on 06/24/2009 4:23:04 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, AIG, Chrysler and GM are what Marx meant by the means of production.)
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Why would it run private insurers out?

Nothing like regulating your competition all the while not having to make a profit and being able to make a loss and somebody pick up the tab.


19 posted on 06/24/2009 4:25:56 AM PDT by cajungirl (no)
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How many people will want to go through the rigors of medical school just to become workers for a gigantic bureaucracy? Where is the incentive without freedom?


20 posted on 06/24/2009 4:28:04 AM PDT by arasina (So there.)
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>>Obama insisted to reporters that the “public option” was not the beginning of an entirely government-owned health system.

He’s right, it isn’t. Medicare, Medicaid, and HMOs were the first steps toward a single-payer system.


21 posted on 06/24/2009 4:28:41 AM PDT by oblomov (Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods. - Mencken)
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He completely overlooks the cost/benefit analysis employers will make when they decide they will no longer provide health care but pay the penalties. If the penalties are less than the monthly premiums and the costs associated with paying employees to administer the business’ health care plan, they will do away with the plan and let the employees fend for themselves. This is what Obama is counting on to create the single-payer system.


22 posted on 06/24/2009 4:31:52 AM PDT by Lynne
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That’s perfectly logical Mr.CROOCK O.
It’s a big waste of mismanaged money and poor rationed healthcares leading to a huge deficit,high taxes,high unemployment and weak economy...in other words THE HIGHWAY TO SSocialism.

In France ,for instance,the doctors’ rate is decreasing quickly because of state controled low fees and a hard work.
Public hospitals, where everyone can get free “emergency” healthcare for everything, are swallowing money and are becoming a real mess with a lot of under-paid uneducated foreign doctors


24 posted on 06/24/2009 4:35:24 AM PDT by Ulysse
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We have two examples to observe, medicare/medicaid. Both always go over budget and are loaded down w/ corruption. I’m not sure why Pres Thin Skin things the govt can take an exponentially bigger share of the pie and succeed. That is NOT logical.


26 posted on 06/24/2009 5:02:37 AM PDT by 556x45
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Government health care = The DMV, The IRS, and the VA combined into one gigantic suppository for every American citizen.


28 posted on 06/24/2009 5:08:12 AM PDT by usmcobra (Your chances of dying in bed are reduced by getting out of it, but most people still die in bed)
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29 posted on 06/24/2009 5:10:21 AM PDT by paulycy (Liberal DOUBLE-STANDARDS are HATE speech.)
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