Arrogance - "Designing" a Health Care System

It’s crazy for a group of mere mortals to try to design 15 percent of the U.S. economy. It’s even crazier to do it in a few months.

Yet that is what some members of Congress presumed to do. They intended, as the New York Times put it, “to reinvent the nation’s health care system.”

Let that sink in. A handful of people who probably never even ran a small business actually think they can reinvent the healthcare system.

All other arguments aside, do you really think that our esteemed members of Congress have any clue what they are doing? Barney Frank? Nancy Pelosi? Harry Reid? Do you really want these guys deciding how your health care is provided?

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Posted 10 months ago

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Sep 29, 2009
Xoco said...
There’s no way that I would trust a few people to “reinvent” the healthcare system. However, I believe the phrase itself is hyperbolic for the sheer purpose of taking credit for “fixing” a broken industry…blame the Times for that one.

Anyone who would assume that it’s possible to redesign a system as complex and firmly rooted as healthcare is painfully ignorant of how all-encompassing it really is. This error lies with both those who think they are trying to change the entire system and those who fault them for doing so. At the very most, you can alter various forces that have an impact on it.

Sep 29, 2009
Michael Liss said...
Yes. Hyperbole rules this discussion. We need to take a breath and agree on what needs fixing and focus on these incremental changes. But the inside-the-beltway pandering makes this quite difficult.

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