Bad Argument: Obama Compares Public Health Plan to Post Office

President Obama today claimed that since the Post Office hasn’t hurt Fed Ex and UPS, the public plan that would compete with private health insurance is nothing for the companies to fear. That analogy cuts against him both coming and going. Analysis over at Secondhand Smoke .

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