As you note, it's a

DF — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 18:31:05 +0000

In reply to Is the US Postal Service obsolete? And what does it mean for health care?

As you note, it's a remarkable system. It's also one that can be salvaged. Even from your own re-telling here, it sounds like we would be better off without a Congress than without a postal service. Okay, I only half-way mean that.

To extend your example of the USPS as a functional government apparatus, there's another way in which it serves as a counter-argument to opponents of healthcare reform. Namely, reform opponents claim that health insurance companies couldn't compete with a government-run system. Clearly this is not the case with the USPS and private carriers like UPS and FedEx.

Of course, the reality is that a government-run healthcare system would actually force competition where there presently isn't any. So, in reality, the truth is that they would have to compete, not that they couldn't.

But, hey.. I live in a country where geriatric, flag-waving Medicare recipients shout, "Socialism!! BOO!!!"

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As you note, it's a