Congress can't
kill the entitlement state. Only the American people can. What
the GOP's Defund-ObamaCare Caucus is failing to see is that ObamaCare is no
longer just ObamaCare. It is about something that is beyond the reach of a
congressional vote.
As its Oct. 1
implementation date arrives, ObamaCare is the biggest bet that American
liberalism has made in 80 years on its foundational beliefs. This thing called
"ObamaCare" carries on its back all the justifications, hopes and
dreams of the entitlement state. The chance is at hand to let its political
underpinnings collapse, perhaps permanently….....
Big labor unions and smaller
franchise restaurant owners want out. UPS dropped coverage for employed
spouses. Corporations such as Walgreens and IBM IBM -1.73%are transferring employees or
retirees into private insurance exchanges. Because of ObamaCare, the Cleveland
Clinic has announced early retirements for staff and possible layoffs. The
federal government this week made public its estimate of premium costs for the
federal health-care exchanges. It is a morass, revealing the law's
underappreciated operational complexity.
But ObamaCare's
Achilles' heel is technology. The software glitches are going to drive people
insane.
Creating really
large software for institutions is hard. Creating big software that can
communicate across unrelated institutions is unimaginably hard. ObamaCare's
software has to communicate—accurately—across a mind-boggling array of
institutions: HHS, the IRS, Medicare, the state-run exchanges, and a whole
galaxy of private insurers' and employers' software systems. …...To Read More…..
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