The die is cast: Obamacare will not survive. This is not a prediction of how the Supreme Court will rule on President Obama's health care takeover, mind you. It's the harsh reality that if Obamacare does not die a judicial or political death - or better yet, both - it will die an economic death, and if it does, it will take America down with it.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/mar/28/obamacares-inescapable-death-march/print/
I don't know if the author is right about "taking America down with it", but who could really doubt that this monstrosity will fail on an epic scale?
Why? Well, I think Henninger puts it well here:
Mandarins are the intellectuals who design and order legally enforceable public systems within which the rest of the population resides, or tries to. French policy mandarins are the most celebrated in the world. Their most ardent admirers in America are the people who made the Obama health-care law.
The Affordable Care Act is not merely a "law" that the Supreme Court argued over this week. It is a massive Rube Goldberg contraption. Its 2,700 pages include every pipe, whistle and valve that the nation's academic health-care economists and doctors have soldered together from infinite studies of hospital data. The new machine even has its own boiler-room crew, the 15 health-care academics of the Independent Payment Advisory Board, who will monitor and adjust the flow of medicine through the national health-care pipelines.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303816504577309731206715296.html
There are certain realizations that transform ones thinking so much that it nearly divorces one from the popular dialogue. For example - I can't believe anyone still thinks that mere mortals, of any party, can design a system for coercively extracting the funding for and directing the actions of doctors and pharmaceutical companies and insurance entities and all the thousands of players that must be manipulated to have a "health care system."
Why would anyone still believe that's even remotely possible? And yet - most do.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/mar/28/obamacares-inescapable-death-march/print/
I don't know if the author is right about "taking America down with it", but who could really doubt that this monstrosity will fail on an epic scale?
Why? Well, I think Henninger puts it well here:
Mandarins are the intellectuals who design and order legally enforceable public systems within which the rest of the population resides, or tries to. French policy mandarins are the most celebrated in the world. Their most ardent admirers in America are the people who made the Obama health-care law.
The Affordable Care Act is not merely a "law" that the Supreme Court argued over this week. It is a massive Rube Goldberg contraption. Its 2,700 pages include every pipe, whistle and valve that the nation's academic health-care economists and doctors have soldered together from infinite studies of hospital data. The new machine even has its own boiler-room crew, the 15 health-care academics of the Independent Payment Advisory Board, who will monitor and adjust the flow of medicine through the national health-care pipelines.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303816504577309731206715296.html
There are certain realizations that transform ones thinking so much that it nearly divorces one from the popular dialogue. For example - I can't believe anyone still thinks that mere mortals, of any party, can design a system for coercively extracting the funding for and directing the actions of doctors and pharmaceutical companies and insurance entities and all the thousands of players that must be manipulated to have a "health care system."
Why would anyone still believe that's even remotely possible? And yet - most do.
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