All this hubris over the predicting the supposed failure of the ACA is annoying but does demonstrate why making such complex systems are probably not good policy in the big picture.

My own take on the ACA is that it is too Rube Goldberg-esque.

I’ve played campaign audio of Harry Truman before, demonstrating that ensuring health care for the masses has long been a Democratic Party goal.

Why Nancy Pelosi and Pres. Obama decided to go with an originally GOP/Heritage idea is something that future students of PolySci might want to untangle.

This fear of “socialism” is irrational, based almost completely on religious indoctrination and the marketing of fear. As a society we have over the last 200 years increasingly approached large problems on a national level, including medicine.

What these people whining about the “government” in healthcare almost never will admit in public is that the national government has long been involved in medicine in this country, from research to health standards to paying for the training of physicians and for medical schools to the VA.

My personal wish is for President Obama to become more ideological, not less. Contrary to the 5 years of whining by the wingnut right, B. Obama is one of the least ideologically “socialist” Democrats. Compared to the likes of FDR or Truman or even LBJ President Obama is downright Reagan-esque.