Obama says health care will be as efficient as the Post Office

[bijou]

...Obama sought to dispel talk that his ultimate goal is a single-payer federal health care system, like that in countries such as Canada.
He also disputed the notion that adding a government-run insurance plan into a menu of options from which people could pick would drive private insurers out of business, in effect making the system single-payer by default.
As long as they have a good product and the government plan has to sustain itself through premiums and other non-tax revenue, private insurers should be able to compete with the government plan, Obama said.
"They do it all the time," he said. "UPS and FedEx are doing just fine. ... It's the Post Office that's always having problems."

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[thundley4]

"For all the chatter and the yelling and the shouting and the noise, what you need to know is this ... if you do have health insurance, we will make sure that no insurance company or government bureaucrat gets between you and the care you need."

He obviously hasn't read any of the bills being considered, or he would know that he is lying.    It's a safe bet that he hasn't read one single bill that he has signed, but left it to his underlings to do so.

[AllosaursRus]

He's kidding, right???????

Oh ****, he isn't!

[zeitgeist]

I wonder where those Whitehouse Christmas cards will end up this year after dissin the Mail Handlers. He also dissed the Federal Health Insurance Program in general ( Mail Handlers Insurance of course is one of several choices ) when he pointed out that Michelle had better coverage than he did when he was a MOC.  He sure can shoot from the lip; seems he barely takes time to reload.  In fairness he was off prompter ....

[thundley4]

And now with video goodness:


[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XTi-WdOu2s[/youtube]
If you think about it, uh…uh…uh, UPS and FedEx are doing just fine.

[pause]

Right? Th-The, uh, no, they are! I mean, i-it’s-it’s the Post Office that’s always having problems.

[DixieBelle]

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot.

I'm just gonna go back to stockpiling my basement. Jeez......

[AllosaursRus]

I wonder where those Whitehouse Christmas cards will end up this year after dissin the Mail Handlers. He also dissed the Federal Health Insurance Program in general ( Mail Handlers Insurance of course is one of several choices ) when he pointed out that Michelle had better coverage than he did when he was a MOOK.  He sure can shoot from the lip; seems he barely takes time to reload.  In fairness he was off prompter ....

FIXED!

[thundley4]

At his orchestrated townhall event today, President Obama defended the notion that his government-run public health care plan wouldn’t crowd out private insurers by referencing the symbiotic relationship between UPS, Fedex and the Post Office. Bad timing Mr. President. On Friday, the New York Times Business Section actually called for the privatization of the post office amid staggering losses, and even said it was in “General Motors territory.” So while the President sells you on his “post office” of health care plans, here are some questions to consider:
1.)  The U.S. Post Office is the only entity allowed by federal law to deliver first class mail to your mailbox. In fact, Fedex and UPS are strictly prohibited from delivering “non-urgent” letters. If the government can fairly compete and is setting fair rules, wouldn’t the post office be open to competition at your mailbox?
2.)  If Americans were offered “free” postage paid for by massive government spending and tax hikes, would Fedex and UPS still exist?
3.)  The Post Office is on track to lose a staggering $7 billion this year alone. How will a government-run health care plan manage taxpayer resources more efficiently?
4.)  Postmaster General John Potter says he lacks the “tools” necessary to run the Post Office effectively like a business.  Would a government-run health care system have the tools it needs to run as effectively as the private sector entities it is replacing?
5.) On the one hand, the President remarks how great his public health care plan will be. On the other hand, he notes it won’t be good enough to crowd out your private insurance, i.e. the Post Office comparison. So which is it Mr. President? Will it be so great that private insurance disappears or so awful that it isn’t worth creating in the first place?
6.)  But the most important question is this: if you have an urgent piece of mail you need delivered, life or death, who are you going to call? Everyone saying the government…please raise your hands. (crickets)
The most frightening line from Joe Nocera’s New York Times piece is this:  “As for Mr. Potter himself, while he may want more freedom to run the Postal Service like a real business, he, too, seemed surprisingly wedded to outmoded ideas about mail service in America. ‘This country needs to have and to protect universal service,’ he said.”
Protecting universal service at the expense of cost, innovation, and quality of care. Sound familiar?

http://blog.heritage.org/2009/08/11/obamacare-the-post-office-of-health-care-plans/The Heritage Foundation

The New York Times is calling for the privatization of the USPS.

Gotta love their timing on this.

[NHSparky]

Reminds me of the line from Gremlins:

"I suggest investing heavily in shotguns and canned goods."

[JohnnyReb]

I was supposed to get a right hefty fed tax refund in 1973....it did come. Took 8 years of back and forth to get it. The IRS asked stupid questions like, "Did you get it and cashed it and now have forgotten that you got it?" "Have you asked your nieghbors if they got it?" blah-blah-blah
You'd think all they'd have to do was check their records, see it hadn't been cashed, cancel it and send me another one.....no way.

After 8 years of my CPA reminding them I finally got it....but no interest. I hounded them for interest but they refused to pay. They said it wasn't their fault and therefore didn't owe me interest....get this, and I quote, "Your check was lost in the post office computer in Chamberlee Ga.. Therefore we don't owe you any interest." My response was, "Don't ya'll own the Postal service too?" ....never did get the interest owed me.

That and a couple of other tax problems had my CPA threatening to stop handling my affairs......

That was just my money and now the SOB's think I want the government handling my healthcare??????? They're even dumber than they think I am.