Like the Post Office, Health Care Office

You know what I hate about the private sector public sector argument about health care. First is the way that republicans make national health care seem like a bad thing when by every measure of how much we pay for healthcare and the results all the nationalized systems are better. But what really bothers me is the either or rhetoric. I say we have a "Health Care Office" just like we have a post office. The post office operates at a loss because if UPS and FedEx were to drop off the face of the earth having messaging service would still be crucial to the nation. The post office is like the off brand version of these fantastic and effecient companies but little by little it gets better competing with them. This is the same way the health care system should work. Blue cross and blue shield and pacificare aren't going to be put out of business. Instead a post office type health care system will develop to provide care for government employess, the poor, and anyone who is kinda healthy and can deal with the low cost (almost no cost) off brand health care the goverment provides.

I think the post office's co-existence with the other mail companies should be a model for how national and private health care can co-exist and I am sick of hearing the boogey man rhetoric from the right or the sky is falling we must act now rhetoric from the left.