The news of late stinks!

Even those not involved directly with selling health insurance cannot escape hearing about and seeing the problems with the debut of Obamacare. It is a perfect demonstration of why government should not be trusted with our health care.

People with common sense and reality-based principles understand that government programs are by definition political. Politicians and bureaucrats are not personally accountable for failure, as in the private sector, so failure is acceptable to them. Thus we get cost overruns, fraud and poor service.

Political consideration number one in the launch of Obamacare was the 2012 presidential election. Defenders of the incumbent did not want voters to know there would be a huge jump in the price of insurance for most people not being subsidized. They didn’t want supporters or critics to know about the rectal exam that would be required by the exchange websites. They didn’t want the masses to know about the four, five and up to eight thousand dollar deductibles. They didn’t want people to learn of the limited (skinny) networks that may not include THEIR hospital, doctor or pediatrician. They knew that revealing those details too early would tip voters toward the challenger who promised to stop it.

Federal agencies sat on a pile of major health, environmental, and financial regulations that lobbyists, congressional staffers, and former administration officials later admitted were being held back to avoid providing ammunition to the critics.

The explosion of federal regulations was already crushing our economy and disgusting citizens who care about freedom. So before the election, Nanny did a slow-mo partial shutdown, if you will, throwing every Obamacare deadline years behind schedule. And yet nobody accepts any blame for their actions

When you are never blamed for failure, failure is acceptable. All that matters is political advantage. The worse your performance, the more important politics becomes. 

It is now looking like the system is so broken that only a few thousand people have been able to sign up.  At this rate, it will take 20 years to implement.  Experts are saying it will take many months to fix, way after the deadline for penalties for not signing up.

Another political consideration: Voters would freak out when they logged on and discovered that being affordable was not a real goal of ObamaCare.  Instead, voters would discover that the law had devised a system of redistributing bad luck, and in this case, the bad luck was going to fall on the young, people on Medicare Advantage, people working in small business, union workers, and the middle class.  The good luck was going to fall on a small slice of supporters in a narrow income bracket, plus people in ill health.

And like they say, elections have consequences. No matter what your profession, butcher, baker, candlestick maker; politics is your business.