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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: Road Walker who wrote (24346)7/25/2012 4:01:55 PM
From: Lane32 Recommendations  Read Replies (1) of 42652
 
The problem is, with government or private companies, that you don't know if they'll work until you try them.

Not always, but much if not most of the time. That's why we do feasibility studies. Some things that won't work are obvious if you just do a mental model. Other things you can predict whether they are likely or unlikely to work. You use past experience and logic to develop rationales. The world wasn't created today. We don't need to start from scratch and give it the old college try.

(With the exception of the wise folks on this thread that are 100% positive that Obama Care won't work).

There are elements of it that are so blatantly obvious that you'd have to be using wishful thinking or have checked your brain at the door to think that they will work.

When private companies do things that don't work, they pay the price, at least they do when the government doesn't override the risks, and some other company that does it right prevails. When government thing don't work, we either don't evaluate them so we don't have to acknowledge that they don't work, blame something or somebody else, or re-jigger the objectives. Then we prop them up throwing good effort and money after bad. Nothing ever gets redone or abandoned.
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