>>>”The first early one was, they were really late in issuing the regulations because they didn’t want them to come out during the campaign so Romney could attack them.”
David Brooks is a real piece of work.
How does he know that was the reason regulations weren’t issued earlier?
The real reason regulations weren’t issued earlier is that Obama, Sebelius, Baucus, and the rest of the administration, were confident they could invent regulations as they went along, relying on the traditional leftist political fantasy that “somehow” they could make things work.
It’s clear to me the federal clowns simply ASSUMED the website would be the one thing that would work flawlessly, because — after all! — other websites work nearly flawlessly when they’re built by Google, Apple, and Microsoft! So they outsourced the project to some incompetent Canadian company (whose EVP, I understand, is an old college friend of Michelle’s) at an unbelievably inflated cost, and the whole thing crashes.
Don’t count on leftists to learn any lessons from all this. All the lefties I know are grumbling bitterly about the fantastic increases in their health insurance costs, but instead of blaming Obamacare, or the administration that implemented it, or better yet, themselves (for having voted them back into power), they’re blaming insurance companies and doctors!
As Thomas Sowell has often pointed out, the fundamental error of the left is they believe reality — in this case, economic reality — is malleable and will conform to their wishes by means of diktat. The danger of the left is that when their policies fail, they never reflect that it might be their ideas that are at fault; it is, instead, always some other group — a convenient scapegoat — that caused their “well intentioned” policies to fail.
Oh no doubt. The planned march of “progress” is more nationalization ofndoctors and nurses if that does not work.
To think of it, the patients are already nationalized...