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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: Peter Dierks who wrote (9557)9/16/2009 10:07:10 AM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (1) of 42652
 
She rearranged several departments to emasculate the ability to investigate Clinton. Some of those she squireled into the department were blatant political hacks. This has caused a shift from nonpartisan investigation to partisan investigation.

Do you really believe that that's the only administration that has ever acted that way? There is residue from every administration in every department. They make waves on occasion like the example you gave while the administration is in power but even then don't for the most part don't make a whole lot of difference. They just get coffee for the political appointees who don't trust civil servants to be in the room. (In my experience, the Clinton administration was the most distrusting. And it had its full share of hacks.) Few political hires are permitted and most of them leave when the administration changes. When the next administration comes in, they are useless for political purposes. Sure, they can do some damage while they are there at the bidding of the administration but once they become bureaucrats, they may be partisan but they are pretty much toothless and are subject to the same scrutiny as any other bureaucrat if they want to stay in those jobs. And as unlikely to do anything on their own initiative.

Of of this relates to the fact that through the actions of people like this we will end up with more partisan bureaucrats.

The number is limited to the number of political hires allowed each administration and the number of those who stick around. I don't see any factor that would cause an increase other than a recession where changing jobs is harder.

Taken to the logical conclusion under ObamaCare we could end up with government medical bureaucrats using their decision power to reward political allies and punish those with whom their political allies have disagreements.

The likelihood of some political hire who a) becomes a bureaucrat, b) manages to get into a position to make significant decisions, c) has the bad character to pursue them and d) doesn't get noticed is an incredible stretch. Not saying it couldn't happen, but the confluence of conditions that would need to occur to enable it is extremely unlikely. And even that assumes that some bureaucracy is given the authority by congress to make such decisions or even have access to such health transactions, which is also unlikely. Some novel might spin a story like that but reality wouldn't.

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