{"id":3076,"date":"2009-10-27T06:56:02","date_gmt":"2009-10-27T14:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/wordpress\/?p=3076"},"modified":"2009-10-27T06:56:02","modified_gmt":"2009-10-27T14:56:02","slug":"about-those-other-public-options","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/about-those-other-public-options\/","title":{"rendered":"About those other public options"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The newly reinvigorated advocates of a \u201cpublic option\u201d in health care argue that government, with its limitless deep pockets, with its ability to sustain an economically unviable operation indefinitely through its taxing and borrowing power, provides fair and meaningful \u201ccompetition\u201d to private health care providers and insurers.\u00a0 Well, then, why not have private providers compete with <em>government<\/em> across the entire range of government services?\u00a0 Maybe the supporters of actual market-based competition in health care could offer the following deal:\u00a0 We\u2019ll give you your health care public option, now open garbage collection, road-building, transit operations, mail delivery, parks maintenance, education, sewage treatment, prison management, inter alia, to private sector competition, and let the most efficient player win.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>(I do not, by the way, believe that even an appropriately deregulated market in health insurance will succeed in lowering health care costs significantly over the long run.\u00a0 As long as people retain their desire to sustain their own or others\u2019 lives long beyond what our biological shelf-life is naturally programmed for, human ingenuity will create ever more fantastic and expensive new technologies and drugs for doing so.\u00a0 The Fountain of Life does not come cheap.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The newly reinvigorated advocates of a \u201cpublic option\u201d in health care argue that government, with its limitless deep pockets, with its ability to sustain an economically unviable operation indefinitely through its taxing and borrowing power, provides fair and meaningful \u201ccompetition\u201d &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/about-those-other-public-options\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3076"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3076"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3078,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3076\/revisions\/3078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}