Ah, but that quaint, trite 'goose, gander' thing.

It ain't like anybody warned us this would happen or anything.

It's certainly working out well in the Massachusetts test run (thanks Mitt!).

Another wonderfully concise article by Thomas Sowell.  The money quote:

Thomas Sowell's error in logic is the first part - "May have more brilliance".  Einstein was recognized as a genius, yet he was an idiot when it came to economics.  Likewise, my Doctor is great in his treatment of me, but I would not let him touch my car or computer.

The truly brilliant people are those who know that they know not.

He's not positing it as a given.  Hence the term 'may'.  And his whole point is that brilliance alone confers no guarantees of common sense or competence.

I had a partner at one time who was 'brilliant' by most people's definition - board certified in internal medicine and rheumatology.  One Monday (early '90's) she let us know how proud she was of the vehicle purchase she had made over the weekend.

She told us how she'd spent considerable time studying safety ratings of family vans as she had small kids & wanted the most highly rated one.  She was also frugal, so she wanted to purchase a used one in good condition.  After completing her research, she had decided on a Ford Windstar, so went to a local Ford dealer & asked to see his inventory of used vans.  She settled on one & bought it.

She wanted to show it off when we left the office for lunch that day so we accompanied her to do the courteous thing & Ooh/Ahh over her new/used Ford Windstar.  Only one problem: it was a Chevy Aerostar.

When we gently informed her of that fact, a shocked look of disbelief crossed her face and she said (I kid you not), "Wait a minute.  I bought it at a Ford Dealer.  How could he sell me a Chevy?"

The topper: She actually took it back to the dealer that evening & got a Windstar.  Not sure what explanation she gave, but I'd love to have been there to hear it.

hey!  the story was good enough!

The answer to 'skyrocketing' healthcare costs has been right under their noses all along and is incredibly simple.  But why do that when we can spend a few trillion dollars trying to stuff a square peg in a round hole.

The health care law does nothing to stop rising costs.  Indeed, it is designed to increase them.  The answer, as the article points out, is to simply stop going to doctors for hang nails.  But the current law will not stop that, it will exacerbate it.

Time for a little more necrophilia.

The skyscraper in the corner:

Is a printout of all (just) the regulations issued pursuant to the "Affordable" Care Act (Obamacare) as of late last week.  An additional 882 pages were released the following day.  The above printout does not include the 2000 or so pages of the law itself.  Many regulations authorized have yet to be promulgated in print, so there's who knows how many more pages to come.

I know I look forward to the simplification of healthcare embodied in that pile.  /sarc

Another (as if more are needed) example of Obamacare's (and Obama's) intent - from the gitgo:

link

But there will be no problem here.  This is America.  /sarc

Then there's this tasty little delicacy.

It is NBC - I would be surprised if they had any ethics or competence.

That is actually pretty terrible and I can see why they redacted it. If you are pro Obama-care and paying attention, this overrides one of the key elements that sold you on it, and would make you very angry.

I'd blame it more on the power of lobbyists though.