Red tape, red garbage

How many examples do we need of why everything the government touches becomes shoddy, overpriced, and in short supply?

1 comment:

J Melcher said...

Some things a government tries, fail. Some work. But which will be what? As the great Yogi says, "Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future."

If a dozen of fifty state governments immediately try an assortment of things while others watch and wait, some will miss the benefits of early action. And some will avoid the risks of wrong action. Which will be what? See above.

Demanding that the Philosopher-King not only impose THE ONE THING upon everybody, be wholly good and predictable and have no adverse or unintended costs or consequences, and be 100% correct all the time, is so unrealistic it can only be a fable told by and to national-level Democrats.

Speaking of which, in 2007 the Great Philosopher Queen-Apparent and Senator Hillary decreed that all citizens be legislatively empowered to carry their entire life's health record with them, from place to place, clinic to clinic, doctor to doctor, in the form of an "electronic health record" that could go from tablet to website to memory stick to wrist alert bracelet. Her Senate bill failed. Her Senate peers denied her the "win" in the run up to her election. Her opponent, Senator and By-God-Annointed Obama, buried the same legislative language that Hillary wanted into his own economic "stimulus" package of early 2009. Now every American has his or her medical/health records up to date, portable, accurate, and useful to all medical/health providers in times of crisis, right?

Uhm. Right?

Has anybody done any review of how well the medical recording, reporting, communication, coding and incidentally billing processes have improved under Federal Government directives in the past dozen years?