I would suggest....if you removed roughly half of the requirements, and just said....refer everyone to the insurance policies in their respective states, and have a form to identify yourself for the subsidy and how much it will be, then wrap that up and call it version one, and say it’s operational.
My guess is that we will go past 30 November, and around 10 December....they will note it’s operational. Course, it will freeze once you get beyond 10,000 people on it (my humble guess). So from that point until Christmas...the news media will try to spin the idea of success finally....but thousands will say it just doesn’t work.
Around early January, someone will finally tell the President (via CNN naturally), that they barely reached fifty percent of their intended goal. As of January 2014, we will have twice as many people now without healthcare....as we did when the whole mess started four years ago.
You can spin this as much as you want, but when you tell a guy that his monthly rate went from $550 to $850, and his deductible went from $3500 to $6000....things just don’t get comfy or acceptable. Most folks don’t have another $5000 in their pocket to spend wildly...even on health insurance. Even with this stupid subsidy....it all looks good until you get to the deductible business. Folks don’t have loose cash.
Bottom line? There would be a life lesson here for kids, political figures, or Presidents. When the government (any government) goes out to do something of a colossal nature...it’s better than a seventy-five percent chance that it will be screwed up in the details, the planning, the delivery, and the final solution. If you think small, compact, and limited...then it tends to work. Sadly, this lesson has been around for 2,000 years.
agree completely, start small, test it first
but, politicians never want to hear that, they never want realistic timelines, they want instant gratification on projects that promote their own “glory”
Bottom line? There would be a life lesson here for kids, political figures, or Presidents. When the government (any government) goes out to do something of a colossal nature...it’s better than a seventy-five percent chance that it will be screwed up in the details, the planning, the delivery, and the final solution. If you think small, compact, and limited...then it tends to work. Sadly, this lesson has been around for 2,000 years.
Brilliant enough to bear repeating.