Why Obamacare Will Fail

repairing the healthcare systen ^ | 2/17/2013 | Stanley Feld, M.D.

[driftdiver]

Nice guys don’t leave babies alone in a closet to die.

[Perdogg]

What are the odds of the Dems begging the GOP for a full repeal before 2014?

[vbmoneyspender]

He is trying very hard.

Where? On the golf course?

[blackdog]

It grows government and expands it’s power. It’s failure will not result in anything better, only worser because it’s failure can only be remedied by more. That’s how government thinks.

[albie]

It’s designed to fail.

[Still Thinking]

Exactly. It itself is a band-aid sold as the fix for what are really the direct and indirect effects of the LAST round of goobermint bungling/meddling, which was sold as the fix for what was really the direct and indirect effects of the PREVIOUS rounds....

Why would the process suddenly cease being dysfunctional on this particular cycle. I stand with The Won when he says that if a certain ideology or group of guys created a problem, they don't get to direct the fix. Course he applies it where it isn't actually true, but the principle is valid.

[theBuckwheat]

ObamaCare (tm) will fail for the same reason that the broader framework its architects are attempting to impose, socialism, will fail.

We only have to go back to the Nobel Prize Lecture of none other than economist F.A. Hayek to see the reason that central planning is is not “sustainable”, a concept that socialists (er, now “progressives”) love to scold us about.

Hayek showed that a national economy had such an immense myriad of dynamic economic relationships that no single committee or bureaucracy, no matter how smart or how well staffed, could possibly know enough to direct prices or production levels. His Nobel Lecture [1] was entitled The Pretence of Knowledge. Hayek had previously used this idea as the basis for a very thorough article [1] on the subject, “The Use of Knowledge in Society.”

If any program has a pretense of knowledge, it is ObamaCare. It is described by a 2,000+ page law, with over 100 committees and bureaucracies, not to mention how many thousands of pages of implementing regulations that are yet to be written.

Socialism is also morally bankrupt, for it demands we accept the premise that we can each live at the expense of others, despite how this violates the Commandments that forbid coveting and theft.

[1] The Pretense of Knowledge
http://mises.org/daily/3229

[2] “The Use of Knowledge in Society,” American Economic Review, XXXV, No. 4; September, 1945, pp. 519–30.
http://oll.libertyfund.org/?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php%3Ftitle=92

[longfellowsmuse]

hmmm so hillary can usher in single payer in 2017....

[Slyfox]

Obamacare is extraordinarily complex:

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[yorkiemom]

Socialism is also morally bankrupt, for it demands we accept the premise that we can each live at the expense of others, despite how this violates the Commandments that forbid coveting and theft.

Bears repeating.

[MileHi]

Exactly. It itself is a band-aid sold as the fix for what are really the direct and indirect effects of the LAST round of goobermint bungling/meddling, which was sold as the fix for what was really the direct and indirect effects of the PREVIOUS rounds....

Healthcare was a mess because Ted Kennedy "fixed it" and we got HMOs.

[A Navy Vet]

This covers just about everything wrong with Bambicare except for the nonsensical idea of buying insurance after the need for medical attention. How is that "insurance"? Wish I could drop my car and home insurance until an accident or my house burns downs and I buy it then. That mandate alone will make premiums sky-rocket.

I thought it was a $2000 penalty. Now it's $3000?

[Vigilanteman]

All leftist schemes eventually fail. The short-term consequences of some of those schemes are more dire than others:

[pieceofthepuzzle]

I have had several opportunities recently to get out of patient care. I love being a doc, and really love seeing patients, but I am very seriously thinking about making this move. I’m sure I’m not alone.

[Still Thinking]

Actually, regular insurance, let alone HMO's, is an insidious product. Shouldn't even be legal. HSA's with HDHP's (High Deductible Health Plans for catastrophic situations only) should be what everyone uses. Minimum involvement by ANY 3rd parties in YOUR health care choices, incentive to use the doctor only when you NEED one, incentive to care what it costs, etc., etc. I can't believe some insurers are advertising themselves to employers by stressing how MUCH they intrude in your life. [eyeroll]

Or just get the incompetent busybodies out of our healthcare entirely by unrolling the original goobermint meddling and undo the special tax treatment for health insurance vs. other forms of employee compensation, lowering overall rates to compensate of course.

[MileHi]

I don't disagree

[Texas Fossil]

Many congressmen who voted for the law did not read the law’s 2300 pages.

NOT ONE DID!

[Texas Fossil]

BUMP!

[b4its2late]

If you’re contemplating it, then there are many others, especially if they are around my age (50ish - shhhh).