Government Health Insurance Company

President Obama is proposing 'choice' in his new health plans. He says the government will compete with the private sector in providing consumers with another choice.

I wonder if the president would be in favor of the private sector competing with government institutions, such as the Post Office, and allow FedEx and UPS to deliver letters to our mail boxes?

The government run health insurance company will have an unfair advantage. It will not pay property taxes like a private company and it will not have other expenses private companies have. It will be like the government schools competing with the private schools. If you use a private health provider you will still have to pay for the government company.

In the future you will, like your kids assigned to a government school and government teachers, be assigned a government hospital and government doctors and nurses. Like the teachers, the doctors and nurses will have long vacations and short days and retirement at age 55, with a cost of living raise in their pension.

Few will be able to change the health system of the future, like a few cannot change the current education system, and most will be happy to have their government doctors assigned to them, like they are satisfied with the government assigned schools and teachers. Just one less decision in a complex life of sheep.

Father no longer knows best. It now is some obese nanny bureaucrat that knows best.

When everything is provided for everyone then no one will want to work. That's when we will hear the old Russian propaganda songs with lyrics such as, "Work, work, work. I'm happy when I work" or this, "...we are working for the future happiness of our Motherland..."--Workers' revolutionary song, Lyrics: F. Shkulevs, all will be song by some smiling chorus line trying to get the sheep to work, or by some celebrity supporting big government.

The only thing that will save us is artificial intelligence that will make decisions without human emotions. It will decide that you get more work by rewarding work instead of plundering work. Some humans don't need artificial intelligence, they already know this.

The masses have never thirsted after truth. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim. ~ Gustave Le Bon

Charles Tolleson