Federalized Healthcare is better! Yeah right...

I know for a lot of people...healthcare is one of those touchy subjects.  Either you want "socialist" aka Universal Healthcare (they use Universal because they want to cover what it really is) or you want privatized healthcare.  Well, Obamacare is in the works and it appears that he is willing to put a lot on the line to accomplish his goal.  The thing here is however President Obama admits...admits I remind you...that Government doesn't do things better than private industry.  Yesterday he stated:

"I mean, if you think about it, UPS and FedEx are doing just fine, right? No, they are. It's the post office that's always having problems."

Why is Obama campaigning on something in which he says private industry can do better?  I'm perplexed here...we are going to spend taxpayers money on an institution in which we already know doesn't do better than private industry?  Am I missing something here...