The last 3 or 4 years of talk about the comprehensive “solution” that is Obamacare have been riding on the delusion that it is some sophisticated hybrid private/gov system of healthcare insurance. Not so. Socialists are not fixers, they are takers and haters.
I am, in another life or orbit, a healthcare policy expert with the theory and the practice well in hand. 30 plus years ago I was CEO in the first generation of ‘fixes’of the healthcare system–I know why these fixes are based on what Hayek called the “fatal conceit.”
I have always told the other wonks that they were distracted by the “squirrel” effect and that socialists don’t have any really effective or sophisticated solutions for what they consider the unacceptable costs and access problems of the current free market (with tremendous government impediments) system.
I always said and am being proved correct–this new proposal, rammed down the throats of Americans, who have the only healthcare system that could still be called private, will be nothing more than super size Medicaid. People will lose access to good care and premiums will increase rather than decrease with no positive effect on people’s health or their health insurance costs.
The system will be redistribution economics/socialism and a grab for more control of people’s personal lives and choices. Liberty will be a memory.
Here we have a good discussion of what is happening.
http://www.americanthinker.com/printpage/?url=http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/../2013/12/the_medicaid_scam.html