Well, there’s a believable reason why the political class refuses to acknowledge this: if they did, most sensible people would instantly recognize that by refusing to pay costs, the politicians are institutionalizing theft and making the populace accessory to the sin.
Given what is going on, I decided to re-read Dante. That’s another source no governmentaphilic is going to ever cite.
Politicians may talk about "bringing down the cost of medical care," but they seldom even attempt to bring down the costs. What they bring down is the price-- which is to say, they refuse to pay the costs.
Indeed, much of what the Democrats do not only does not cut the cost of medical care - billion dollar FDA approval requirements and crap-shoot litigation increase it.Any sane person wants authority, but no sane person wants responsibility. But if I have the authority to make something happen, someone else must have the responsibility to me to actually do it. So the supply of authority cannot be any greater than the supply of responsibility.
Said differently, the authority is normally called "demand," and - if you count all the coin involved in a transaction - supply and demand are always equal. The government may promote the illusion of reducing costs by reducing prices, but the cost of a thing you is limited to the price only when you are in the store and the thing you desire is on the shelf, available for your use precisely at your convenience. It is cold comfort, after all, to see the price of gasoline is low but the pumps are not activated - or to be out of gas on a desolate road and know that gasoline is cheap "only" ten miles away. In which case what you pay for the gas is the list price plus the time and aggravation (let's hope your cell phone is working!) of getting delivery of gas where you actually need it.But the fundamental tenet of management is that you should never allow any separation of responsibility from authority - if you didn't have the authority to do something, I can't properly blame you for the fact that it was not done. Political leftism is nothing other than the separation of responsibility from authority, in which people - journalists in the first instance, fellow-travelling politicians in the second - exploit propaganda power to create that fatal separation. Journalists naturally promote themselves and suggest that their talk about food supply is more important than the farmer's provision of food supply.