Obama challenged on Healthcare

During Obama’s 75 minutes of primetime coverage, he was questioned by some doctors regarding a scenario on what he would do if his family became sick.  Would Obama make a pledge to use his own plan and go with the public option?  His response:

“…if it’s my family member, if it’s my wife, if it’s my children, if it’s my grandmother, I always want them to get the very best care.

In otherwords, no.  He wouldn’t use his own plan.  Like everyone else, he wants the very best.  That means use of private insurers.  With a government regulated health plan, they’re going to cut cost by limiting what treatment can be done.

The GOP Senators also have a concern.

“At a time when major government programs like Medicare and Medicaid are already on a path to fiscal insolvency, creating a brand new government program will not only worsen our long-term financial outlook but also negatively impact American families who enjoy the private coverage of their choice,” the senators wrote.

“The end result would be a federal government takeover of our health care system, taking decisions out of the hands of doctors and patients and placing them in the hands of a Washington bureaucracy.”

Obama responds by saying that they’re wrong.  Obama has no executive experience.  He has no business experience.  How can he say they are wrong?  Obama claims that the public option would have lower administrative costs.  That’s a bunch of horse pucky.  Since when has government ever had lower costs?  It never has.  Take Congress as an example.  Congress can’t even live within it’s means. Now Obama is promising that a public run health care system will cost us less?

Obama continues on to say that:

he didn’t understand those advocates of the free market who constantly say the private sector can do things better and are yet worried about this plan.

He also said:

that the private sector might not necessarily be better, point out that users of Medicare and Veterans Administration hospitals constantly rate “pretty high satisfaction.”

The reason that he doesn’t understand is because he is dumb.  He apparently doesn’t remember the VA hospital fiasco a couple years back.  The only reason Medicare and the VA have “pretty high satisfaction” is because they have unlimited money through tax dollars.  If the public plan is to compete and ofter the same great service, we will spend more than the promised “low administrative costs.”

And the only reason the administrative costs “might” be lower is because the costs is subsidized by the government.  Since the private sector uses the free market, that is how much the services are worth.  When government offers something for less, they have to subsidize it.  It ends up costing more.  How ever much we “save” on administrative costs are collected through taxes.