Privatization of National Healthcare: A Good Idea!

Imagine if your car insurance carrier was required to insure your car: regardless of the fact that you drove it off a cliff last year.

Geico would no longer be able to afford to keep lizards and Neanderthals on the payroll. But this is exactly what the new health care bill is mandating.  No citizen can be denied coverage; even if they drove off a cliff.  The government will achieve this feat by privatizing a federally mandated program.  What a concept!

According to the Congressional Budget Office, the new bill will cost $940 billion over the next 10 years.  And it will cover 32 million currently uninsured citizens. This equals $244.79 per person, per month . . . for the next ten years.  That sounds reasonable to me.  Mind you, this $250 will be going to private insurance companies to offset the risks inherited when they agree to take on “high risk” people, who had previously been considered, un-insurable.

But I’d rather pay my portion of tax to help my fellow un-insurable citizen get covered by a private carrier than to expect the government to administrate his/her healthcare.  Insurance companies are good at not spending too much money.  Famous for it really.  Whereas the government buys $1000 hammers.  If I’m gonna have to ante into the insurance pool: I want my money being spent wisely.

Imagine if corporations administrated welfare benefits.  Fraud, abuse and waste would be eliminated in short order.  Corporations guide themselves by the basic principles of economics.  And controlling wastefulness and inefficiencies is the core value of modern business.  Privatization of government programs makes a lot of sense to me.