Herman Cain: What exactly did you think government-run health insurance was going to be like? The Obama Administration finds itself scrambling this week as its much-anticipated health care exchanges are stumbling out of the blocks with consumer confusion, system shutdowns and sticker shock over the actual cost of “free” health care. Obama hilariously tried to claim in an interview with the AP yesterday that public interest far exceeded the government’s expectations. But is that really the problem? In Kansas, there are more than 360,000 people without health insurance, and one of that state’s congressmen, Republican Tim Huelskamp, reports that not a single Kansan has yet signed up. Some of that is because the system is such a mess. Huelskamp says he actually tried to sign up but couldn’t navigate his way through it. Surely others tried too, but ultimately decided it wasn’t worth the hassle. “Folks are working round the clock and have been systematically reducing the wait times,” Obama assures us. Tell me another one. If you think the wait time to sign up is bad, imagine what the wait times will be like for cancer treatments, or for emergency surgery, or for a physical. This is what happens when you take a service and use politics to a) explode demand for it; while b) forcing providers to take all comers. You will get shortages. You will get doctors leaving the system. You will get premiums going through the roof. You will destroy quality.
Posted on: Tue, 08 Oct 2013 10:09:42 +0000
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