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Government can not do anything cheaper than private enterprise.



They can't do it cheaper, but they can subsidize by keeping raising taxes to try to pay for how much the cost of health care is ballooning and remove coverage for more and more health issues and tests that they suddenly deem 'unnecessary', in uncanny timing with their needs to lower costs.

Then private health insurers will have to compete on costs and try to make the same cuts as the government health insurance plan, and all our coverage will start to suck as bad as the government shit.

It's was completely shocking to me how little an issue health insurance coverage was in the presidential election. The recession blew away coverage of everything. We're gonna get out of the recession, but the decisions made on health care are going to be with us decades, maybe centuries.

Best thing that can happen is Obama's efforts get stalled and the Congressional election in '10 becomes a nationalized rather than local ized effort in the Dem.'s vs. Republicans battle where the main issue is health care. Have a real debate over the issue where the citizens learn than just the country falling in love with a cult of personality who has next to no qualifications to do the job anyhow. And, he gets to dictate the outline for the plan.