tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7464708.post7153581403033996228..comments2024-03-22T06:05:36.544-04:00Comments on Kids Prefer Cheese: ACA: A Jobs Bill for Wealthy DemocratsMungowitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02340064320347875601noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7464708.post-72419467093159131662013-09-20T23:03:23.115-04:002013-09-20T23:03:23.115-04:00I gather you look at former Congressional staffers...I gather you look at former Congressional staffers getting high paid jobs in health care lobbying and the like as corruption. Well ... so do I, more than a bit. Other hand:<br /><br />(A) These clever people wouldn't be making such a nice living without a tremendously complex legal-social environment in which health care spending takes place. If you want to cut out most of that, design a much simpler health system, one that school kids can understand, not Harvard-educated PhDs. Note that "doing things just as we did in the good old days of George Bush or Richard Nixon" is NOT simpler -- odds are these new liberal "experts" are simply replacing older conservative experts who knew all about negotiating with freely competing insurance firms with thousands of different policies.<br /><br />(B) Another way to see this is younger, brighter, better educated people who know their way around social networks of bright educated people, successfully managing their own careers in the new, open-to-talent American workplace. They're the winners in the brave new world Tyler Cowen predicts for us. They're our coming rulers and there's nothing for us plebes to do but duck our heads before them and thank them for the kindness they bestow upon us.mike shupphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08383379836883992742noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7464708.post-76320733402357526622013-09-20T22:13:52.713-04:002013-09-20T22:13:52.713-04:00Obama doesn't know the difference between offs...Obama doesn't know the difference between offshoring and outsourcing. He doesn't know the difference between automatic weapons and semi-automatic weapons, or rifles and shotguns. He doesn't know the difference between health insurance and health care. Maybe he's not all that bright, or maybe he knows it just doesn't matter, as long as he's the one saying it and the media don't hassle him.<br />As for the ACA, it was NOT created to enrich wealthy donors. It was envisioned to concentrate power in the hands of government officials who will make sure the world runs better, according to their expert plan. The "enriching the donors" part is just grease for the skids, come-along money enabling the grand end game of a more just, centrally-controlled world where people get their fair share and give their fair share.Pelsminnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7464708.post-9298624476320266372013-09-20T11:12:07.269-04:002013-09-20T11:12:07.269-04:00Don't forget the transfer of income from the y...Don't forget the transfer of income from the young and relatively poor to the old and relatively rich. The exchanges entirely depend on the young and healthy to join.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7464708.post-43527793143271900152013-09-20T09:31:52.959-04:002013-09-20T09:31:52.959-04:00Is it rationed by price? It seems that the lack of...Is it rationed by price? It seems that the lack of rationing (by government or price) explains most of the runaway expenses in healthcare. If Grandma was footing the bill, would she get the hip replacement when she's 85? Of course, no one likes it when Grandma wants the hip replacement and can't afford it (or justify it), but we all feel better when experts just tell her no.ADnoreply@blogger.com