Obamacare

[Lamplighter]

It always devilishly amusing to read David Brooks in the NY Times.
He wants so badly to be a leader, a guru, or at least be on the winning team.
He's just not sure which team will win.
Today, he joined the Limbaugh team...

It's going to fail HOORAY ! YEA! YEA! ... I told you so


NY Times
DAVID BROOKS
April 25, 2013
Health Chaos Ahead

It was always going to be difficult to implement Obamacare,
but even fervent supporters of the law admit that things are going worse than expected.
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I’ve been talking with a bipartisan bunch of health care experts,
trying to get a sense of exactly how bad things are.
In my conversations with this extremely well-informed group
of providers, academics and former government officials, I’d say
there is a minority, including some supporters of the law,
who think the whole situation is a complete disaster. They predict
Obamacare will collapse and do serious damage to the underlying health system.

But wait a minute, David.
After showing us your width of knowledge... yada, yada, yada
You go on to say:

But the clear majority, including some of the law’s opponents,
believe that we’re probably in for a few years of shambolic messiness,
during which time everybody will scramble and adjust,
and eventually we will settle down to a new normal.
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Over all, it seems likely that in some form or another Obamacare is here to stay.
But the turmoil around it could dominate politics for another election cycle, and the changes after that
— to finally control costs, to fix the mind-boggling complexities and the unintended consequences
— will never end.

Regulatory regimes can be simple and dumb or complex and sprawling.
When you build complex, it takes a while to work through the consequences.

So which is it, David ... CHAOS ... or just take a while ?

Next month David will be telling us of all the benefits and success
that he predicted for Obamacare.

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