Seven healthcare questions Obama won't answer.

1. Assuming the figure of 47 million is correct, how can insurance coverage be provided to 15% more people with the same number of doctors, other providers and clinic hours and hospital beds without substantially increasing the cost?

2. If the answer to “1” above is “efficiency” then how will the efficiencies be created without overt rationing in either the underwriting or coverage process, or both?

3. If the answer to “1” above is “efficiency” then why will this federal entitlement be more economically efficient then existing Medicaid, Medicare and the Veteran’s Administration health programs, all of which objectively operate at billions of dollars of losses every year?

4. If the answer to “1” above is competition then how will fair competition work if one competitor-the government plan-makes the rules and has an unlimited ability to operated at a loss?

5. If the government underwriters use more generous underwriting criteria then private insurers currently use then how will extending existing coverages to include previously excluded pre-existing conditions be less expensive than existing coverages that exclude pre-existing conditions?

6. Why will the federal employees who manage the government program, who cannot be sued and are nearly impossible to fire, provide better customer service then private insurers who can be sued and who can fire their employees at will?

7. If the cost to employers to maintain existing health insurance is more than the cost of canceling existing coverages then why will employers not simply force their employees into the government program by canceling existing coverage, thereby negating the ability of the insured to “keep the insurance plan they’ve got”?