Corporations can lease oil rights from the government but I can't lease Medicare.
I just don't get why it's legal for corporations to lease oil rights from the government, but I can't lease healthcare insurance from it. Right now, I have to buy healthcare insurance in the open market. The government has it, but I can't buy it. Republicans wouldn't like it and would say no, even though it's my money and my government that has what I want to buy.
But an oil company? They don't have to lease oil from private owners on the open market. They can lease oil rights from the government all they want. Who cares if it undercuts the prices private owners would be able to charge? Republicans love the government leasing out oil rights to corporations.
We should be consistent. If the government can lease something corporations want to corporations, then it should be able to lease something people want to people.
I know, I know. Government run health insurance would be a total rip-off. It would be run by the worthless, inefficient bureaucrats that Republicans tell us literally infest every crevice of the government. Health insurance companies would have nothing to worry about competing with those idiot government bureaucrats. So there shouldn't be a problem offering to let people buy into Medicare if they want to. No one would buy into it anyway if the Republican vision of government efficiency is worth its salt. Why would Republicans say no to the government offering to sell something no one would buy?
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