Health Care - Doing It the GM Way

~by Cato

"The insurance lobby won't be able to block a public health plan because most Americans realize they would be better off if the industry had competition, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said Tuesday as congressional committees worked to shape legislation." http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31387083/ns/politics-white_house/

Just consider what this sentence means. Is there not competition in the healthcare and healthcare insurance industry? How many companies are competing for my health insurance? As to being better off, it is the government that will be "better off" with health care competition and healthcare insurance eliminated by the proposed government take over.

It is just a typical obfuscating liberal lie "... that Americans realize they would be better off if the industry had competition". Does she mean that there is some other industry that can provide competition to the health care insurance industry? What, like we should have the steel industry give some competition to the health care industry? Does she mean that the rising costs of healthcare and its insurance come because there is a monopoly in the market? What lunacy! Of course there is a monopoly. Doctors have a monopoly on the doctor business and prevent auto mechanics from being doctors. Insurance companies have a monopoly on insurance and prevent grocery stores from being health insurers. Sheesh, it is exhausting just getting any liberal to engage in correct thinking and discussion.

Just imagine if she had said, "The market would be better off if there were more competition in providing automobiles." Duh, there already is "more competition" -- or was until the government decided to get into the car business. Now, you tell me whether the rising cost of GM cars was due to some car manufacturer's monopoly. No, it wasn't due to any such thing, it was due to bad decisions and (coincidentally for this discussion) union benefits and union required healthcare strangleholds -- and government interference.

And, the competition in the auto industry, had it been allowed to run its course, would have correctly driven out the bad businesses (GM) with their unsustainable practices and lowered prices. Instead the government plan will stifle competition by propping up unsustainable business practices.

This is exactly what she wants to do to healthcare. This latest collectivist plan will not encourage competition, but stifle it, for when the government owns a means of production of providing health care, it actually reduces to the government owning THE entire means of production, because nobody in their right mind will enter the market to compete against it, because the government will ALWAYS protect its industry at the expense of those not in the club. And this is without reference to the administration's intent, well documented, to crush private insurance and take over the industry.

As to what is the real end game (and it is not providing health insurance), I will leave it to Seneca to reveal in one of his later illuminating posts.