What I can't understand , in the present discussion of healthcare funding , is the opposition from the Insurance corporations to the government offering an insurance option .
We are always told that the government cannot run anything efficiently , so surely that would lead to either high premiums for this option , or poor delivery of service to the participants of that system , which would by market forces lead to those patients then seeking out private insurance ?
Private insurance by its very efficiencies , should be able to provide insurance at such competitive terms that nobody would want the insurance offered by the government .
So what am I missing when I hear the proponents of private insurance ,saying that a government health insurance option is such a bad idea ?
