Public “Option” Will Destroy Competition

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There is a false notion out there that the new public healthcare “option” will bring back capitalism where it has been absent before. There is never an explanation of why healthcare has all these problems that are unique. It just is, and capitalism, freedom, and voluntarism is to be blamed.

Lets assume that this is true, healthcare is a free market (it’s not) and the result of free markets is the insanity that be face today (it isn’t). It is from this premise that the healthcare option will create competition and capitalism where it has not existed before.

Once again lets assume that all of this is true, there is a pretty important question to ask, have public “options” ever resulted in more competition in the past? No.

For an example, has the public education “option” resulted in competition? No. The poor go to public education, the more wealthy go to private, and anyone that doesn’t have the money but wants their kid to have a decent education has to do home school.

Everything that the government puts its hands on destroys competition, and you are then left at the mercy of those in power.

There can be no competition with the government because the government is a monopoly. You cannot compete with an entity that takes it money by force, and then provides it’s “service” for “free”. How would you compete with it?

Lets say I start a lemonade stand charging 25 cents per glass, then someone starts the public option down the road, and give lemonade for free. I am not going to drop my prices to “compete” with those giving out the lemonade for free down the road, but rather just not make lemonade anymore. You have destroyed the possibility of profit.

There is of course one very important difference between the analogies. The government is not just doing charity work and handing out free healthcare, it is taking your money by force and then providing healthcare and calling it an “option”. If you want to provide an “option” do it with your own time, energy and property, and don’t advocate violence against me in a self righteous manner and call it an “option” to add insult to injury.