Quote Originally Posted by DJD View Post
Brian,
You make some good points. The best one is the gubment being inept. I agree some sort of intervention, tweaking was necessary but the approach they took was wrong. Noone in their right mind knew what was in the bill when passed and it stunk to high heaven. When a bill starts off like that it's doomed to be another failed, bleeding, money sucking gubment program.
I have no faith that this was a good move. I see this as a political move nothing more. If they wanted to fix something they could have fixed many other things. Tort reform, border security, economy, foreign aid reform and on and on.
Going after healthcare was easy since they were not fixing failed policies like with other items I mentioned. In this case they were creating a new one (what they do best) and many people say its gonna cost big time! We will see once they start taxing us taxpayers for this program.
Oh, don't get me wrong....I don't think Obamacare and the bill were the answer either....the government is completely inept at trying to fix the problem. (Most problems, for that matter....and especially ones where cost and operational efficiency are involved!!)

But I do think they have to take a leading role...

Very basic example of government ineptness:

When Sara was born last month I filled out the paperwork at the hospital to get her birth certificate from the state. On the form, I asked for 5 official copies. When they arrived in the mail, it was 5 separate copies, in 5 separate envelopes, with 5 separate letters, and 5 separate postage charges. If it were you or me footing that bill as a private company, you save the cost of envelopes and the cost of postage by using common sense and putting all 5 in 1 envelope. Very basic example, but multiplied times over in many other areas when the government and anything related to cost or efficiency is concerned.