According to an article in today’s WSJ, at a recent town-hall meeting Obama is asked how the private insurance market will be able to compete against the government public option plan.
To answer the question the President draws a parallel to UPS, FedEx and the post office, “UPS and FedEx are doing just fine, right?” – following this astute comparison with: “It’s the post office that’s always having problems.”
Did I read that correctly?
Is Mr. Obama comparing the public option plan to the post office? An entity which has reported a $4.7 billion net loss in a single fiscal year, closed several hundred offices, and cut thousands of jobs.
If the public option plan is expected to be a costly and unsustainable government subsidized nightmare on par with the post office (even by those who created it!), why are we even having this debate?
Great…If one gets upset because the USPO loses packages, let´s see what happens when government hospitals lose your newborn baby because you decided not to pay delivery confirmation or extra insurance…Great job, Mr. Obama: the United States Postal Office is one of the few companies that is not accountable for its service. This plus the fact that its mission statement has remained the same for the past 230 years ¨to provide trusted, affordable, universal service¨. Is this the same mission statement that Mr. Obama and Congress are thinking of? Am I having a deja-vu moment here????