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It is good that the President has ceased attempting to sell his public option health care initiative on the strength of a comparison to the United States Postal Service. Americans will not soon be convinced of the economic viability of an expansion of public healthcare when it is compared to an entity on track to lose $7 billion this year. This past summer the Government accountability office put the postal service on its high risk list because of its “increasingly shaky financial footing,” and in the spring Post Master General John Potter asked Congress for permission to cut delivery service...
Health Care Analogies
Hidden data: 1) the French system, so widely touted, actually consumes 24% of GDP, not 10.5% as claimed by the WHO. 2) French doctors earn 1/3 of American doctors' net income. 3) Excluding gunshots and car accidents, Americans have the highest life expectancy in the world.