Talking points: A fact sheet on health care reform issues

In today’s Reno Gazette-Journal there was an article entitled: ‘Competition absent among private insurers’. This wasn’t a surprise to anybody that is actually sentient and intellectually concious, and a fact that seems to be repeatedly missed by the purveyors ofthe neo-con dogma.

Once again, I’d provide the link if I could find the article on the RGJ cum USA Today site.

Here’s the bottom line: opponents of health care reform say that a public option would doom the private insurers by squashing competition. The idea being, I guess, that the public option would be so great that we’d all flock to it? Isn’t that the whole idea of competition in a free marketplace? I mean, the Big Insurance Companies would have to get off their backsides and really provide service and a product. Wow, just how unfair is that?

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