This "competition" nonsense is just a talking point created to placate the dumb masses.
Someone put an extra 'm' in there. 
Posted on 06/29/2009 6:55:01 AM PDT by Turret Gunner A20
Now we know just how ignorant Obama thinks the American people are. Answer: Dumb as rocks.
All the president's men (and women) are out selling the asinine idea that Obama's government health insurance idea is going to put competition into the marketplace. This is an idea that one could only sell to a fool. Thanks to our system of government education, we are not suffering any shortage of fools.
Here's what Obama wants us to think. If the government gets into the health insurance business it will create such a fine and wonderful health insurance product that all other health insurance companies out there will have to tweak their products and prices in order to compete. This competition will, if you believe Obama and his sycophants, make health insurance more effective and more available across the board.
Like I said .. there's certainly no shortage of fools out there. Someone is buying this load of horse squeeze.
Sure, the government may very well come up with a health insurance product that is cheaper (to the consumer) and more effective than those offered in the private sector. Think about this though ... Could that possibly be because the government will be under no pressure whatsoever to make a profit on its health insurance? When you can operate at a loss indefinitely you have no problem undercutting your competitors. When you can call on endless government subsidies you can run anyone you chose out of business.
Let's say I open a grocery store. My stated goal is to give the other grocery stores in town some competition so we can provide a better product to the poor hungry consumers and help them save money at the same time. The other grocery stores will have to make a profit or close their doors. Not me! I'm the government, and I can operate at a loss. I have endless government subsidies and infusions of cash at my disposal. What will happen? No secret: When I move into the marketplace with a below-cost product the other grocery stores will shut down and I'll have your business locked up. Then I can do whatever I want with the choice, quality and price of my groceries and there really isn't a thing you'll be able to do about it.
There, my friends, is Obama's goal. He knows very well that his government-run insurance option is going to run private sector insurance companies out of business. Then the only game in town will be the government.
This "competition" nonsense is just a talking point created to placate the dumb masses. The average 12-year-old home schooled child could dissect this game plan in a heartbeat. The same fools who thought Obama was going to pay their mortgage and put gas in their cars will now think that PrezBO is bring good old free market competition to the health insurance marketplace. All hail Obama, the sort-of God.
Now if the competition line doesn't work there's always a little class warfare that can be played. Sorry ... didn't get the name ... but I saw some ObamaBot on Fox News last night trying to sell Obama's health insurance takeover on a wealth envy basis. He referred to health insurance companies being engaged in "Sweetheart Deals that makes its executives very very rich," and referred to the private sector health insurance companies as a "cartel." On the one hand he plays directly to wealth envy and the hatred that the Obama crowd has been generating toward high-paid executives; on the other he conjures images of health insurers operating like the Mexican or Columbian drug cartels. That's the Obama concept of open discussion.
This is about control. Nothing more, nothing less. Obama wants control. Control over every aspect of your life. He's well on his way to complete success.
Wednesday, the president will hold another online town hall about heath care. They're taking your video questions via YouTube. You can try asking your questions. We'll see if they actually get answered or if they just cherry pick the easy ones.
Dumber than a box of rocks -— Should read dumber than a Kenyan.
Just look at how well government put competition into the utility industry, and how well it manages the defense industry. Next, autos and banks....then govt experts telling doctors what treatment they can prescribe.
This "competition" nonsense is just a talking point created to placate the dumb masses.
Someone put an extra 'm' in there.
My insuror already does. Yes, the government would be even worse.
There are a few liberals at work and using them as a guide I would say it has been bought hook, line & sinker by about 35% of the US populace.
I find it exasperating that the exact same people that rail aginst Wal-Mart because they drive other retailers out of business are the same ones that can’t see why the government moving into the private sector is a problem.
So if I understand this correctly, government employees, unions and senior citizens groups covered by private insurance would be exempt from this?
I think it was Boehner who said that Fedzilla “competing” with private insurance is like an alligator competing with a duck.
TGA20, thanks for posting this.
Rush Limbaugh cut right to the key point of this. It is all you have to remember when debating this issue:
A private company will never be able to compete with a company that does not have to make a profit to survive.
If Obama was about competition he would fund private, charter and home schools.
A big issue with the government ‘competition’ concept is that unless they prohibit (unconstitutionally in my opinion) physicians from accepting private insurance or fee for service, physicians will gravitate toward those patients. It’s the same principle that led to greater crop yields from small ‘private’ parcels of land vs. large government farms in the USSR. Few people want to work under the control of the government.
If competition is good, may I safely assume that school choice/vouchers is right around the corner?
I think the real point is that Government run health care will by definition outlaw other health care options.
There will be no competition at all, they will be legislated out of business.
Now, lets all go down to the VA hospital and watch government heath care in action.
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