Real World Results Don't Matter

Politicians in general and Obama in particular don't let real world results affect their decisions.  In fact, the Left seems to believe that they can somehow centralize and handle our needs better than the Soviets did or better than the European socialist countries have just as the Right is convinced that unfettered free markets will always produce the desired results.  (And I am in the unfettered category; it's never been tried, though and never will be.)

Case in point:  Wendy Button, and her experience with attempting to obtain health insurance after relocation from Washington DC to Massachusetts.   The so-called "free" health insurance that she must purchase as required by RomneyCare is far more expensive than what she paid in DC.  And this is the problem that Obama's requirements for reform will cause.  He insists that pre-existing conditions not be allowed.  This means that the insurance companies have no choice but to price for the recurrence of possibly high cost health problems.  Price goes up.  Obama wants there to be no caps on coverage.  Price goes up.  Obama wants every single person covered but makes no changes to tort law or to break down competitive barriers across state lines.  Price goes up.

So we can have everything that The One wants to "give" us.  We just need to be prepared to pay more for our "gift".  He's not creating competition, He's driving costs up with one set of actions and attempting to lower them with another set of actions.  We should expect nothing more from a man who has spent his entire life in the Ivory Tower and has little real-world understanding of what it takes to run a business.