I listened to various governors talking points on CSPAN this morning. The mantra is the federal government can do certain things better than the private sector. They point to social security and medicare. Last time I looked both programs were set to go bankrupt. The governmental option ( or single payer ) caries an unfair competitive edge ( no cost of capital ). This advantage will slowly push the free enterprise system out of the market. If you really looked at cost look towards government mandates.
Two questions:
1 If legislation is passed will the congress and first family be mandated to receive the same level of care.?
2. The government seems to think they can do a better job than the private sector. If you are so good at cost containment why are most state budgets in a deficit. ?
This will be another disaster for the country from Washington.
Daniel Horowitz
Neil Stevens
Moe Lane
Steve Maley
Jake Walker
Ans to Q1: MUST BE.
Rod_Patrick (Diary) Sunday, July 19th at 12:22PM EST (link)They’re cooking it. THEN LET THEM EAT IT.
Nevermind Q2. It’s just the old tactic of making politicians LOOK GRANDER AND MORE ELITE to eyes of the gullible and lazy electorate.
The government
artraveler (Diary) Sunday, July 19th at 12:41PM EST (link)Only has two basic functions, that is law enforcement and war. The constitution provides for the federal government to do both and to spend the treasure necessary to keep the people safe from foreign and domestic criminals. No one pretends that it is efficient or cost effective. Everything else should be left to the states and the people.
Answer to question 1. never in a million years will the political elite use the same health plan as us poor plebs.
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” C. S. Lewis
Well said
Whitesands (Diary) Sunday, July 19th at 12:55PM EST (link)The same trash year after year without regard of history they constantly look to control.
Saint Thomas Aquinas on private property
“Private property is a desirable economic institution because it complements man’s internal desire for order. “Hence the ownership of possessions is not contrary to the natural law,” Aquinas writes in the Summa Theologica, “but an addition thereto devised by human reason.” The state, however, has the authority to maintain a legal framework for commercial life, such as enforcing rules prohibiting theft, force, and fraud. In this way, civil law is a reflection of the natural law. Further, Aquinas believed that private ownership of property is the best guarantee of a peaceful and orderly society, for it provides maximum incentive for the responsible stewardship of property.”