Hey Scalia, Four Reasons Your Gang's Obamacare Ruling Is Like A Prostate Exam
So, it’s the eleventh hour on the Supreme Court’s much-awaited verdict on The Affordable Care Act, often referred to as Obamacare.
Are you, like me, panting on the edge of your chair? Right now it feels more like waiting for the results of my prostate exam. If the law is upheld (a good result), life will go on with all its attendant pleasures and travails. If the law, or more likely, parts of it, are struck down, like an exam’s bad news we are still left with a series of options, some less appealing than others. In any case, like the exam, the process has been annoying, and I for one will be happy when it’s over. Mostly, because its been an unneccessary pain in the butt.
No matter which way the Supremes rule, as noted by others in Forbes and elsewhere, and reiterated here, the American way of providing and paying for health care is in the midst of a transformative transition that is unlikely to be impeded. The cost burden, to the federal government and states, and to employers, and individuals who must buy their own insurance or care, is by necessity, not by legislation, driving changes designed to encourage, and in many ways, force providers and payers to have more skin in the game. When money is an important factor in deploying care, just like it is when selling or buying a car or house or even blue jeans, cost and quality suddenly comes into play, allowing the invisible hand of capitalism to play a constraining role. Obamacare, with its limitations and warts, at least doesn’t do anything to slow this process, and it can be argued that it does a bunch of things to speed it up.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelwaldholz/2012/06/27/hey-scalia-four-reasons-your-gangs-obamacare-ruling-is-like-a-prostate-exam/
