Letters to the Editor
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The government is like any other company?
"where the government provides insurance to its employees like any other company..."
I have never heard anything more idiotic. The government is neither a private company nor part of the free market. Correct me if I am wrong, but I cannot shop around for the government I most want to give my tax dollars too. But who knows maybe rainman can come up with names of private companies that have all of their income pre-determined by federal law.
The goddamn question is why do government workers get better socilized medicine than those in the private sector. I say socialized medicine because health insurance is based on a socialist structure, namely that many contribute to a common pool for the benefit of the whole. I know I am using the term socialist loosely here, but the only difference is that pertaining to governmenthealth care contributions are mandatory, while in the private sector it is optional.
Optional that is if you are willing to skip getting necessary health services and risking your health or getting the necessary health services and then risk going bankrupt. Based on todays healthcare costs, you are a fool not to contribute to health insurance (if you can afford to) whether government mandated or not.
And where do free market forces play into getting health care? You're in a car accident, bleeding/maybe dying on the side of the road and you don't get in the ambulance until you get two more quotes from other ambulance services to compare prices? Right. And then also ask to be driven an extra 100 miles to a hospital with better emergency room rates. Ok, that's being a smart shopper.
The real pisser though is that for private industry the goal is to not only benefit the contributers, but also and increasingly to benefit the shareholders. In a government plan, there are no share holders, nor private companies to bleed, so to speak, the contributers.
So government officials like Rudy get the best that private sector socialized health care has to offer. Great, but I say Rudy should act like a true conservative and give up his government subsidized socialized health care. The dumbass can then pay for his next bout of cancer out of pocket.