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False Talking Point,Obama administration pushes Public Health care as "competition".
self | 13 June, 2009 | marktwain

Posted on 06/13/2009 3:38:00 PM PDT by marktwain

I just saw an Obama spokesman on Fox make the absurd claim that Publicly financed health care would cut costs by bringing "competition" to health care.

I found this claim to be absurd to the point of laughability. Government financed health care does not need to be worried about cost because the money comes from the taxpayers. There can be no "competition" between government and private providers, because private providers do not have the force of the government to collect taxes, promote regulations, and use the power of the state to force competitors from business.

This is an incredible use of the "big lie" technique. I hope that Rush and others address this, because it must not go unanswered.


TOPICS: Government; Health/Medicine; History; Politics
KEYWORDS: agenda; bho44; democrats; fox; health; obama; obamacare; rationedhealthcare; socialism; socializedmedicine
The "government" as a competitor against private institutions is an idiotic idea.

Much of the reason our health care costs are so high is because the government has done so much to prevent competition and push third payer systems.

1 posted on 06/13/2009 3:38:01 PM PDT by marktwain
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Gub’ment will underprice it (using taxpayer money) and drive private insurers out of business.

Anyone that believes Obama is a fool.


2 posted on 06/13/2009 3:42:34 PM PDT by whitedog57
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In a free economy, the government should NEVER compete with private business.

But, this isn’t a free economy anymore, is it?


3 posted on 06/13/2009 3:43:52 PM PDT by Bryanw92 (Kill a Commie for Mommie)
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Competition

One has to admire their creativity, if not their veracity.
4 posted on 06/13/2009 3:44:39 PM PDT by ComputerGuy (0bama - A waste is a terrible thing to mind)
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Just like Amtrak has competition for passenger train service.


5 posted on 06/13/2009 3:46:18 PM PDT by Man50D (Fair Tax, you earn it, you keep it!)
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OBAMA is not telling the American people that with a government health program the people will not be able to sue the government like they can with private health insurance.


6 posted on 06/13/2009 3:56:07 PM PDT by txoilman
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And agency of the US that does not provide a good or service but only regulation and bureaucracy is not competition, it is a monopoly and a violation of the spirit of the anti-trust laws.
7 posted on 06/13/2009 3:57:29 PM PDT by Ghost of Philip Marlowe (The most dangerous fascists are those with a warm smile and soothing voice.)
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Competetion? The zero’s plan is to make government insurance so cheap (via taxpayer subsidies) that it will literally drive all the others out of business that then government medicine will be the only game in town.


8 posted on 06/13/2009 4:01:04 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Socialism is the belief that most people are better off if everyone was equally poor and miserable.)
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its bullbleep everything that gets subsidized or done by Government gets more expensive.
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9 posted on 06/13/2009 4:16:19 PM PDT by omega4179 (America is a Christian Nation.)
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If it can’t be sold as one thing, market it under a different name.

That has always been the leftists strategy.


10 posted on 06/13/2009 4:21:37 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (The plan... 0 in power for life. At least that's what they told him.)
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That’s exactly why AMA is for 0’s farce.

They want your money, but they don’t want any responsibilities.


11 posted on 06/13/2009 4:24:12 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (The plan... 0 in power for life. At least that's what they told him.)
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Is it true that the insurance companies are for the BO government health care plan? I heard that the plan would require people to buy insurance so the insurance companies were okay with the plan.
12 posted on 06/13/2009 4:27:14 PM PDT by Bronzy
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Subsidized competition is unfair competition. Not to mention inefficient competition.


13 posted on 06/13/2009 4:32:41 PM PDT by Brilliant
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Another example of the nonstop TruthSpeak BIG LIES from this extremely evil man-child POTUS and his ilk.


14 posted on 06/13/2009 4:54:26 PM PDT by MrDem (Monthly Special: Will write OPUS's for Whiners and Crybabies for no charge.)
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