It’s a curious moment in history. There in early October...was a small group of fringe Republicans offering the deal of a lifetime. All the Administration had to do...was accept, and then blame the Republicans for the delay. It was a five-star offering, and they weren’t bright enough to grasp it.
“............Washington is a town full of chuckleheads — people who don’t know what they’re talking about but are good at sounding as if they do. Eloquence is their strong suit. New York Senator Chuck Schumer still brags about his 800 College Board scores as if that makes him an expert on everything. There is nothing new about this. Studies of primitive tribes have shown that people who emerge as leaders are as likely to be good talkers as they are skilled in things such as the art of war. And who but a bunch of such chuckleheads could have imagined you could rearrange the nation’s entire healthcare economy by putting up a single website? Only a politician who has never accomplished anything in the private sector but has watched others in action and decided the whole thing is easy could have such a notion.
In his great book, Socialism, written in 1921, Ludwig von Mises quotes Lenin, who wrote somewhere that taking over an industrial economy was going to be easy — all you have to do is make the bookkeeping entries and record the profits. Von Mises compares the socialist understanding of economic essentials to that of “the errand boy, whose only idea of the work of the entrepreneur is that he covers pieces of paper with letters and figures.” The same could be said for President Obama and all the Democrats in Congress who have decided they can take over the nation’s health insurance industry and run it in their spare time.
The effort to redo healthcare begins with the assumption that the insurance business is essentially illegitimate. It is only run “for profits” and not for the good of the people. After all, there are almost 40 million Americans without health insurance. If the government were running the system, everybody would have health insurance and be happy as well. This is an old story and can be applied to any business. Take out “the profits” and everything will run smoothly for the benefit of all..............”
http://spectator.org/articles/56527/washingtons-chuckleheads