This all jumps squarely into “cognitive dissonance” territory. If the government can’t competently direct how insurance should work, how can it possibly run the healthcare industry without making a HUGE mess of it?
They have had nationalized “health care” in Britain for decades, and the system still does not work as advertised. Women give birth in hallways, people wait months for specialty care, people die when they need care beyond the basic and have a hard time even receiving basic care. If, after at least six decades, the Brits still can’t get it right, why would anyone think that it would work well in the US?
The government’s only job is to provide the regulatory framework—giving hospitals safety standards and so forth—not to try to run and micromanage every business. Micromanagement never works.
“Micromanagement never works.”
Hi ExDemMom,
Micromanagement DOES work.
For them.
It’s one of the many fine tools utilized to strangle anything good.
They understand that should there exist good people, smart enough to go about their own affairs on a day to day basis, then there is no need for THEM and they suffer by becoming unnecessary. It’s them or us, and they hold the keys (power) for making laws. Once the people become educated (really educated, not indoctrinated), they cease being powerful.