Gmail Went Down for an Hour Today; Could a Public Health Insurance Option Doing the Same
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Free services are wonderful until they become unreliable. Gmail for instance, has a 99% uptime but sometimes does fail as it showed today around 3:30 PM EST. Strangely, most pay services also fail, the only difference is there is something called accountability. When a free service fails the company is not bound to pay you for the reprecussions of a lack of service. Gmail can stop your service if it wants to. Imagine now that we are doing this to our Health Insurance industry.
What happens when Healthcare all the sudden goes down. Government machines or operators cannot be reached to approve payment. Websites no longer work for submitting paperwork, or doctors stop accepting patients until paperwork is resolved. We all know how long government paperwork takes to push through.
This is not a world that Americans have built. Imagine who is held accountable when the Public Health option fails to deliver. We can only hold ourselves accountable, after all the government is paying for the services, which in the end means we are paying for them out of our own pocket. Silly to sue ourselves for bad business decisions.
