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    C-O-M-P-E-T-I-T-I-O-N ... Private vs. Public Health Care


    . . . This is it in a nutshell . . .

    C-O-M-P-E-T-I-T-I-O-N

    The Party of No are shilling for the industry. So what's new?

    In the words of ol' Republican Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa speaking to the President:

    "So the only thing that I would throw out for your consideration -- and please don't respond to this now, because I'm asking you just to think about it -- there's a lot of us that feel that the public option that the government is an unfair competitor and that we're going to get an awful lot of crowd out."

    Dang... They don't want any competition? What kind of attitude is that?

    What about the competitiveness of the marketplace? If the private sector can't do the job in a more efficiently organized, cost effective and quality driven way than the public sector, then sink or get swimming.

    Let the best plan win.

    Don't overlook Roger Hickey's visit here at the Cafe. He's definitely on the good side of the fight.

    Roger pointed this out, that I wrote about in a blog some time back (my underline)...

    Senate Finance Committee Chairman, Max Baucus, in his highly-regarded White Paper called Call to Action: Health Reform 2009, which proposes creation of a public insurance plan similar to Obama's, argues that the public plan, by virtue of its size and non-profit national charter, would be able to reorient America's health care delivery system toward services and activities that improve patient care and "bend the curve" of growth in national health care spending.

    ~OGD~


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