At the risk of being labeled Un-American, I still have to comment on the quotation above. This is taken from John Brummett’ lastes opinion piece. I have to ask, is he seriously touting the US Post Office as an entity which will “engender competitive efficiencies” in anything? This bloated government waste of taxpayer money which is currently expected to be somwhere in the range of $8,000,000,000 in the red at the end of the year? Claiming competition from the Post Office could cause anything to be better is absurd to the point of almost total disbelief. Only a true diehard liberal could believe government control would make any program run efficiently and reduce costs…but to use the US Post Office as an example is laughable.

Actually, the more I think about it, on one hand he is probably correct. Government run healthcare is already a fiasco with Medicare and VA Healthcare as two prime examples. Corruption is rife, poor medical qualty in government medical facilities is commonly documented (Walter Reed, HIV exposures due to unclean medical instruments, etc.) and of course, let’s not forget the latest example of government management, the famous “Cash for Clunkers” program. Therefore, competition from Obama-care will likely make the current insurance system we have todday look extremely cost efficient and desirable.

80% of us have insurance, 10% of us who don’t either don’t want it, don’t want it badly to pay for it, or their guardians don’t want it for some reason, and none of us want it to be given to illegal aliens regardless.

We probably should be appreciative of Brummett for actually making the case for Obama-care to just go away. You see, medical care will greatly mimic the US Post Office and the Cash for Clunkers program from the start. And, that is just the good news.