One of the dumbest arguments from Republicans about President Obama's health care reform is that a "public option" would force private insurers out of business. Absurd as it sounds it's actually their argument. What it would do is force private companies to compete with a public plan. The only way they would close down is if they can't compete, which is the very basis of capitalism. So the big, bad, super-capitalist Republicans are actually arguing that competition (nee: capitalism) will actually shut down private enterprise. It makes no sense. You can't actually call yourself a capitalist and say such things.
On top of that, here we have Congressman Roy Blunt (R-MO) saying that government should have never gotten into the health care business. Amazing really. Roy Blunt is a federal employee who's health care for him and his family is completely paid by tax payer money. His very own health care plan is the government getting into the health care business. If you pay attention to what he's saying, it's that government shouldn't have started medicare and medicaid. Well, then, it's perfectly acceptable for government to have started his health care plan but not a plan that covers other people That's the whole point to every Republican/conservative plan. They aren't against government funded anything. They're against anything that might provide anything they have to other people.
