Thomas J. Gordon

Pundits Are Wrong: Healthcare Reform Will Increase Profits

King... The gov't plan is not competing (in the real sense of the word) with private health plan. They are taking taxes (other people's money or borrowing money) and using it to price a product that unh and wellpoint sell as well. It is not a level playing field, it is not "competition. unh and wellpoint can't take $1000 from each of us and use it to compete with other players in the market like the gov't can. If you think the gov't has some profound ideas about how to offer services in the marketplace, look at the soviet union. They had the gov't running everything with no constraints on gov't power and it was a total mess.