On The Public Option And Bankrupting UPS

There has been a widespread conservative belief that a possible public option for health care reform is a secret plan to get to a single payer system. The secret plan goes like this. The government says it will introduce a public option to engender competition. This option will operate with such low prices, because the government doesn’t have to worry about profitability, that it will bankrupt its private sector competition and pave the way to a single payer socialized system that can finally carry out the New York Time’s wish to kill Sarah Palin’s baby. A conservative friend wrote that there was no such thing as competition with the government. If this is such an absolute, then how’s the U.S. Postal service doing on that whole secret plan to bankrupt UPS and FedEx? If it fits it ships, but they’re hemorrhaging money and UPS sponsors a NASCAR team.

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One Response to “On The Public Option And Bankrupting UPS”

Marcus Reeder on August 9th, 2009 at 6:34 am

Acually there is not direct competition with the postal service. UPS and Fedex do things that the postal service was not doing until UPS and Fedex showed they could be done. The USPS said it could not do things like overnight shipping. So techinically they were not in direct competition to start with the private companies grew a base and this allowed them to compete. OF course the government still wont let UPS and Fedex compete with them since only the USPS is allowed to deliver first class mail for less than a dollar.

Some of the proposals on the table for healthcare would not allow the insurance companies to compete. Things like price fixing will help the government option while hurting the private option. The government option will have everyone paying into it and the private companies will only have those willing to pay more. Kind of like it is with private school vs public schools. Everyone pays into the public schools and if you want something better you pay out of your pocket for both the public school and the private school. This is not competition it is the government using a gun to get you to back their plan.