If Big Health-Insurance Companies Can't Compete, Let Them Go

[Joanne98]

Big insurance companies say that a public option for national health care is not fair, that they cannot compete with it. They say that it would be tantamount to government to running the medical-insurance companies out of business.

Then I say it is time for them to go. Why should some third party make money off my infirmity? Why should my health-insurance policy be a half-inch thick and impossible to understand? Why should every dealing with the insurer be a struggle? Why should private business prevail when the government can do the job better and cheaper?

The point of capitalism is to allow the best, most efficient systems to prevail. What happens when that system is the government?

There are those who would cry tyranny, and lecture us about government monopolies and lack of choice. I suspect that they are the same people who enthusiastically supported the Patriot Act.

The public option's lack of choice is a red herring, and those who suggest it are unwitting pawns.

If you do not believe me, ask a doctor in Canada, France, the UK, Switzerland, Iceland ...

CHRIS HELWIG

Lakeland

http://www.theledger.com/article/20090716/NEWS/907165025?Title=If-Big-Health-Insurance-Companies-Can-t-Compete-Let-Them-Go