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Obama Political Failure #23

Okay, there’s really been a lot more than 23, but things have been rather chaotic on my end.

Yet another Political Failure for President Obama. In his most recent Town Hall, attempting to “sell” Americans on socializing health care, he first asserts that IF the public option has to operate without taxpayer subsidies, then private insurance should be able to compete with the public option. He then uses UPS, FedEx and the U.S. Postal Service to make his point, stating that the Post Office is the one that is having problems. And he is mostly right. One thing missing in this comparison is the fact that ONLY the U.S. Postal Service can deliver first class mail, and only the U.S. Postal Service can deliver to our mailboxes we have at our homes. Also, if you have a P.O. Box, only the U.S. Postal Service can deliver mail or packages to it. UPS and FedEx cannot deliver to your P.O. Box (although you can go to a third party company and get a Personal Mail Box).

here’s the video:

Now, for our side, this was a great analogy; it shows that if a public “option”, and when you read the details, it really isn’t an option but a mandate, you will get the same kind of service you get from the Post Office, including billion dollar budget over runs, reduced service (the Postal Service is shutting down a number of offices around the country), higher costs, and limited access.

And that assumes that there will still be a private option (there won’t be for most working Americans) available and that the public “option” is not subsidized with taxpayer dollars (which it will be, read the bill).

The Post Office never promised free first class mail service. It has always charged for it. I can (vaguely) remember when it cost 6 cents to send a letter. How much is it today? I lose track. My wife deals with most of the mail. (God, am I lucky!) Many people of switched to paying most (or all) of their bills online (we have), thus saving a couple of bucks in postage every month. Multiply that by a 100 million households, and no wonder the Post Office is losing money.

But we won’t have that choice with health care once HR 3200 is passed and signed into law. They claim it is to insure the 47 million people currently uninsured; a mix of people, half of whom are people who choose not to buy insurance, another chunk of that number are people who qualify for Medicare but have not signed up for it (and I can’t blame them…they probably have better private insurance), and then there is the roughly 12 million illegal aliens that would be covered. What it will end up doing is insuring upwards of 90% of Americans. Military get military coverage (which will be better than what the rest of us will get) and Congress will continue with whatever they vote for themselves, which will, of course, be the best coverage in the world. People with enough wealth, like George Soros, and the Hollywood elites, will be able to pay for whatever they need with “out of pocket” money. But those of us who have to work for a living will be f***ed.