In an editorial USA Today defends the PPACA on the basis of what it might do:
Unsurprisingly, this slow-motion disaster has soured Americans on Obama and his signature law. A new USA TODAY/Pew Research Center poll shows disapproval for Obamacare at its highest point since Pew began polling on the law in 2010; 45% say it will have a mostly negative effect on the country, and just 39% say it will be mostly positive.
The news could get worse before it gets better. Many people who buy their own insurance are just finding out that their new plans might charge higher premiums and might not cover familiar doctors, hospitals or prescription drugs. No wonder Obamacare opponents think they have the law on the ropes.
And yet, the latest enrollment numbers are a reminder that the health care law has the potential to help millions of people and is worth salvaging. As the HealthCare.gov website and state exchanges began to function better, more than four times as many people signed up in November as in October, the administration said Wednesday. Nearly 1.2 million people are getting insurance, either through private policies or Medicaid.
Until now, the law’s benefits have been mostly theoretical.
I’d have more confidence in the law if people were defending it on the basis of what is has done than on the basis of what it might do. It isn’t potential, sincerity, or commitment that will determine whether on balance the law is good or bad but its results.
And yet, the latest enrollment numbers are a reminder that the health care law has the potential to help millions of people and is worth salvaging.
This plan might remain in place by sheer hubris and stubbornness, on the part of Obama and his party loyalists. However, it is not worth the salvage.
Something created out of turmoil, deceit, lies, one-sidedness, partisan zeal, confusion, flaws, punishment, incompetence, cost overrides, grief, would serve the public more to be discontinued, starting over with a less onerous, divisive kind of HC reform.
I also totally disagree with the philosophy of some here, that something is better than nothing, as oftentimes doing nothing, until something of merit can be constructed, does less damage in the doing and undoing.
Milton Friedman, in 1978, speaking on socialized medicine. A blunt, forthright POV discussing socialized medicine in the UK and Sweden. It was especially noteworthy when he talked about the “Theory of Bureaucratic Displacement,” whereas useless work displaces useful work, pointing out how it applied to medical practices in the UK, where bed occupancy went down as waiting lists of people, 600,000, went up. Is this what awaits us in the implementation of Obamacare>
“the potential of what it might do…”
This is what got the One a Nobel Peace Prize…