I am usually the Cato Institute's biggest fan, but in an email I received yesterday, they were completely off base:
"It makes intuitive sense that President Obama's health plan, which would expand health insurance coverage to an estimated 30 million currently uninsured Americans, would improve their health."
Um, no:
If they were trying to be tongue-in-cheek, then they failed utterly to accomplish their goal.
If, on the other hand, they were positing a thesis, then they were remarkably tone-deaf: there is nothing in this bill about health care - only insurance and policy. Nor was it ever designed to address either the delivery of health care or reining in the cost of that care.
Of course, for Nancy, et al, this is a feature, not a bug.
UPDATE: In the comments, FoIB Rick B takes me to task for failing to acknowledge various portions of ObamaCare© which seem to support Cato's position.
In rebuttal, I offer the testimony of that noted right-wing tea-partier, Representative John Dingell (D-MI):
"It takes a long time to do the necessary administrative steps that have to be taken to put the legislation together to control the people."
I rest my case.
"It makes intuitive sense that President Obama's health plan, which would expand health insurance coverage to an estimated 30 million currently uninsured Americans, would improve their health."
Um, no:
If they were trying to be tongue-in-cheek, then they failed utterly to accomplish their goal.
If, on the other hand, they were positing a thesis, then they were remarkably tone-deaf: there is nothing in this bill about health care - only insurance and policy. Nor was it ever designed to address either the delivery of health care or reining in the cost of that care.
Of course, for Nancy, et al, this is a feature, not a bug.
UPDATE: In the comments, FoIB Rick B takes me to task for failing to acknowledge various portions of ObamaCare© which seem to support Cato's position.
In rebuttal, I offer the testimony of that noted right-wing tea-partier, Representative John Dingell (D-MI):
"It takes a long time to do the necessary administrative steps that have to be taken to put the legislation together to control the people."
I rest my case.
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