{"id":694,"date":"2013-10-02T18:01:05","date_gmt":"2013-10-02T22:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jparnell.com\/blog\/?p=694"},"modified":"2013-10-02T18:01:05","modified_gmt":"2013-10-02T22:01:05","slug":"unintended-consequences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/battle4liberty.com\/?p=694","title":{"rendered":"Unintended Consequences"},"content":{"rendered":"

Investors Business Daily<\/em> and other publications have chronicled numerous and serious problems associated with the implementation of Obamacare, from huge cost spikes to a long list of companies cutting workers to avoid the impending regulations. The President recently claimed, “There’s\u00a0no widespread evidence that the Affordable Care Act is hurting jobs.” I don’t know how he defines widespread, but other Obamacare defenders have acknowledged some of the “glitches,” referring to them as unintended consequences.<\/p>\n

An unintended consequence is when something happens that was, well, unintended. If these consequences were unintended, then the follow-up question should be unintended to whom?<\/em> No serious economist, politician, or businessperson should have ever doubted that many companies will cut hours whenever possible if doing so avoids retribution from Washington, or drop or modify their own plans if they become too expensive in the new system. History tells us that any new government program can be expected to cost much more and deliver much last than originally touted. A cursory analysis of Amtrak, the post office, or the IRS should tell us all we need to know about government’s inability to manage organizations effectively and efficiently.<\/p>\n

If we take those who claim unintended consequences<\/em> at their word, then we should also insist that they join the opposition, because there’s a lot more to come. I’m not so generous. I think many supporters expected these problems are simply want another round of “reforms” to whip the American public into shape. They favor the inherent wealth redistribution in the plan and don’t mind forcing it into place. When the Republicans likely cave, I expect those on the left to propose more regulations to fix the problems created by the current ones. Such is the process of socializing a once free nation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Investors Business Daily and other publications have chronicled numerous and serious problems associated with the implementation of Obamacare, from huge cost spikes to a long list of companies cutting workers to avoid the impending regulations. The President recently claimed, “There’s\u00a0no widespread evidence that the Affordable Care Act is hurting jobs.” I don’t know how he […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/battle4liberty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/battle4liberty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/battle4liberty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/battle4liberty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/battle4liberty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/battle4liberty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/battle4liberty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/battle4liberty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/battle4liberty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}