Just a correction: Medicaid is run by the state, and it depends on your state the kind of coverage (and quality) you get. Not surprisingly, states with higher taxes have better Medicaid coverage.

Here’s the real bottom line for me why I would prefer working with a for-profit company over the feds:

You can shame the hell out of a company, and since they worry about negative PR and bottom lines, they tend to cave. I can give you so many examples, as this is part of what I do. (Mental health activism)

I have identical situations all the time between corporate and government. Corporate in 100 percent of the cases I’ve worked on has given in and done the right thing, because when I get loud, I bring in the troops and the media. They can’t take it.

Government doesn’t give in. They’re bureaucrats, and could care less if you’re picketing outside, or the Washington Post is writing crap about them. In most cases, the government did not reverse its decision, and that applies to cases in Canada as well.

I’m no fan of insurance companies, but I’ll tell you, the dollar works wonders in shutting their fat asses down. The dollar in government only works when you’re paying someone illegally on the side. Then it works pretty well.

It’s funny we hear Republicans say that they do not want “faceless bureaucrats” making medical decisions but they have no problem with “private sector” “faceless bureaucrats” daily declining medical coverage and financially ruining good hard working people (honestly where can they go with a pre-condition). And who says that the “private sector” is always right, do we forget failures like Long-Term Capital, WorldCom, Global Crossing, Enron, Tyco, AIG and Lehman Brothers. Of course the federal government will destroy heathcare by getting involved, Oh but wait, Medicare and Medicaid and our military men and women and the Senate and Congress get the best heathcare in the world, and oh, that’s right, its run by our federal government. I can understand why some may think that the federal government will fail, if you look at the past eight years as a current history, with failures like the financial meltdown and Katrina but the facts is they can and if we support them they will succeed.

How does shouting down to stop the conversation of the healthcare debate at town hall meetings, endears them to anyone. Especially when the organizations that are telling them where to go and what to do and say are Republicans political operatives, not real grassroots. How does shouting someone down or chasing them out like a “lynch mob” advanced the debate, it does not. So I think the American people will see through all of this and know, like the teabagger, the birthers, these lynch mobs types AKA “screamers” are just the same, people who have to resort to these tactics because they have no leadership to articulate what they real want. It’s easy to pickup a bus load of people who hate, and that’s all I been seeing, they hate and can’t debate. Too bad.