my connection with the tea party

[eppie]

[quote='eppie' pid='189763' dateline='1317120404']So whThe disagreement that tea party folks have with the current direction, and trend in health insurance is that it is replacing the private sector with government (socialism). They don't have any faith that the government would do better, and in most(all) cases where the government takes over, things cost more and we get lower quality (e.g. postal service).

But I don't think this is a law of nature.
E.g. in the Netherlands we had (have) a wave of privatizing government run things like health insurance, energy, trains postal service and in our case things have become more expensive....sometimes a little better but the main difference we see is more commercials on TV and stories about top managers with huge salaries and bonuses.
At least when the government does something and it is too expensive the money goes to normal people working (e.g. having 10 postmen doing the job of 6). If a company does something too expensive the money goes to bonuses of top managers.