If that’s not bad enough, here’s more of Rush’s brilliant thoughts on health care reform:
There will be no private insurance once they get a public option. Thats the dirty little secret. There will be no competition. Thats the dirty little secret. What public once a public option is in place, the insurance companies are not going to be able to compete. Its theyre not even going to try. The insurance companies are going to try to offload. Once there is a public option, youre going to see the insurance companies get out of it and get on board the government plan for a whole host of reasons. The dirty little secret here is that the idea of a public option is to end up with a single payer and thats the federal government.
What’s hilarious about this argument is its resemblence to the case against school vouchers that infuriates conservatives. When liberals say that if we give families school vouchers everyone will leave the public schools, conservatives usually retort with market and competition based responses. The logic is if that public schools which can’t compete in the market context which vouchers would create, then it shows how weak they are and those schools should close. But when it’s private insurance companies that might not be able to compete with a government insurance plan, then the market based logic goes out the window.