Posted by
Anthony Rizzuto on Sunday, August 16, 2009 3:56:40 PM
Conservatives who may be relishing the sweet taste of victory due to the administration's so called removal of a public option in health care reform should not be lulled into a false sense of security. The concept of co-op insurance with government oversight sounds strangely familiar, not unlike Freddie and Fannie and we all know what happened there. This has the sense of a boondoggle in the making and bankruptcy in the future. If the legislature has any involvement what so ever there is no doubt that abject failure is what we have to look forward to. Not to beat a dead horse but some measure of torte reform needs to be a part of the overall plan and congress needs to be kept from putting their very sticky fingers in the pie. Yet another example of government ineptitude was the partial privatization of the postal service and they continue to lose money year after year. Conservatives need to continue to press all branches of government until there is a definitive plan on the table rather than ethereal promises so that we have to ability to judge a concrete proposal on it's true merits. Most important is the truth of what the actual cost to tax payers will be and how they're going to pay for it. Until that time we cannot afford to rest on our Laurels.