I know, I know, this is turning into a lazy-man's blog but this Salon.com parody is just so spot on,
http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/06/30/police/
Obama has said, if he had the chance to do it all from scratch he'd setup a single-payer system of healthcare. So why is he caving-in to the entrenched private insurers who are doing such a terrible job? Would anyone seriously question the need for universal -- publicly paid-for -- police service?
Here's something unique I can add to the discussion: Fire protection used to be privately funded, but everyone now agrees that it is better as a public service. How is medicine any different?
UPDATE: I wanted to make sure I wasn't blowing smoke about the private fire depts. I found some other recent articles making the same comparison,
http://open.salon.com/blog/bill_beck/2009/06/21/better_burnt_than_red
http://theamericanscene.com/2007/10/26/private-firefighters
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