Posted by
Laura L. Hollis, JD on Wednesday, July 29, 2009 11:46:44 AM
Federal policy initiatives fail, because they refuse to look at what we in entrepreneurship education call your "competitive market data." If an entrepreneur wants investment monies from a venture capitalist, one of the first questions she'll be asked is, "Who's already doing this?" "What's been tried?" and "If it failed, why did it fail, and what will you do differently?"
Any why do these putative investors ask those questions? Because they don't want to throw money - that isn't theirs, by the way - after something that has been proven not to work.
So, you'd think the feds would be sensitive to what has happened with government-provided health care in
Tennessee. Or in
Massachussetts. Or in
Hawaii. But they don't seem to care. (And let's remember what staggering successes Medicare and Medicaid are at containing costs.)
Which suggests that this whole push isn't really about providing care for everyone; it is about control over the American public, so that you can manipulate them to do what you like. Ah, now that is an idea Obama can really get behind.