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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Road Walker who wrote (36438)	5/3/2014 2:50:47 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

>> Almost all government regulation is a response to a 'real world' problem. They don't, generally, create regulation out of thin air. It happens, not often. They do, and I'm not one of the cynics who believes that they have evil intent. But the truth is government solutions tend to be worse than the original problem. ACA is a perfect example of it. Without regard for whether one wanted the legislation or not, it would be really difficult to sustain the argument that what we got was as good as what we had. That just doesn't comport with reality. And there are similar examples throughout history. There are successes, but they're rare. TRA86 was a success. Civil Rights was a success. But Medicare and SS are abject failures. There are entire departments within government that are failures. Well-meaning programs (of recent note, the minimum wage) are absolutely counterproductive and harmful. Yet, I don't believe the politicians who support it believe that. They're just demonstrably wrong. But they continue to support it. We have to have government but you think we need a lot and I think we need as little as possible. There is not much else to say about it.

To: Road Walker who wrote (36438)	5/3/2014 3:20:03 PM
From: TimF	1 Recommendation Recommended By i-node Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

Almost all government regulation is a response to a 'real world' problem. Only if you define "'real world' problem" so broadly as to include things like "Competition is a problem for me, please government restrict it so I can have a nice cushy position and let the money role in". Also "created in response to a real world problem" doesn't imply that the regulation won't be worse than the problem, or even that it eliminates or reduces or helps deal with the results of the problem.