Wednesday, August 19, 2009


The PUBLIC OPTION
Greater than the New Deal

In the face of a government that relies on a laissez faire economy; the opportunity for a tax based, government run health insurance plan is the best approach to maintaining the pecuniary economy that health insurance providers thrive on. The Public Option would add a competitive nature to a health care system that is driven by profit and cares very little for the overall well being of those who finance its very existence. The current system allows for the provider to set the standards regardless of the current market trends. Those very same market trends are less forgiving to the consumer who have absolutely no say in the health care process. The multinational corporations that run the health care system are in the business of pecuniary outcomes. Co-ops and Check-offs are a small example of how big industries may streamline their competition in order to dictate the market trends that they survive on.

The Public Option serves both the provider and the consumer. The Public Option falls far short of the government privatization of the health care industry. The health care providers are able to continue to swim in the cesspool of the pecuniary world. The blessing for the poor consumer who can not compete with the profit margins and stock options, is the creation of competition in the pecuniary market. The Public Option, in theory, is similar to what the large corporations enact when they deem it necessary to take control of their respective markets, despite their earnest call for a laissez faire economy. Large companies will pool a percentage of yearly profits, in order to create a common board or trust. This board or trust creates a hegemony within the respective industry which allows for a despotic rule in the guidance of said industry. The Public Option would be a check off for every tax payer. The payoff will entail a health care system that is centered around the ideas of adequate public health for everyone, not just those who can afford it.

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