Government work in its purest form

More on yesterday's subject of how the executive training for President that consists of running a successful campaign doesn't necessarily translate into the expertise needed to run the nation's healthcare system:
Complex regulations, the flexibility of peanut brittle, and a system that rewards rule-followers and connections, not ability to do good work?  Now that the problem has been identified, we learn that it couldn’t be fixed because of fear of transparency and political liability, and that no one will be held accountable for it.  That’s not an isolated problem of government function.  That’s a distillation of government function, a metaphor for the entire thing, and again, it was faith in this entity that animated Obamacare.

1 comment:

Assistant Village Idiot said...

Precisely. Many (not all) of the people attempting to implement any of these large government helps will mean well and be reasonably competent. They will get some good things accomplished. But the efficiency will be low, the cost high, and it will be increasingly difficult to fix mistakes.

The Post Office does indeed deliver mail and help the public navigate a few other government functions, such as passports. But as soon as there was real competition, it became clear that it could be done better. That is the norm, not the exception, for government.