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If government option is so devistating to private industry. . .?
Why are Federal Express, UPS, and other shippers/carriers doing so much better than the US Postal Office?
I mean, the argument of the insurance industry and those against government optioned health care is that if the government can offer an option and it is lower in cost, this will be devastating to the private insurers. And yet, Federal Express, UPS and other carriers are more expensive than the US Postal Service, but they continue to profit.
Can someone explain the difference to me??
But if the Government branch came first, wouldn't that make it STRONGER than private industry, thus making it a crushing entity? What I am meaning here is that government will not quash private industry, and it can add to it. What is the difference?
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- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
Try asking UPS to take a piece of mail across the country for you for 50 cents! They'll die laughing.
The Post Office does a very good job.
They are in the red because taxes are too low to support normal government functions.
- TubbyLv 51 decade ago
There's a difference. With postal service, the gov't option came first, then the private competition. With health care, it is the other way around. The difference is, gov't infringing on private industry.