The Affordable Care Act is not designed to help anyone live longer or to lower the cost of health care.
You may care about those things. But the people who run the government have their own motives and incentives. And they are not the same as yours. Instead, they aim to satisfy a more basic desire of government: to control people and transfer wealth.
The failures of Obamacare may not make much sense to the earnest world-improver.
But the cynic sees it more clearly. He knows the real aim of Obamacare is to take wealth and power from one group ? the public ? and give it to the lobbyists who wrote the legislation; the politicians and professionals who will manage it; and the crony capitalists who will benefit from it most.
In other words, cynicism helps you connect the dots.
Why would Congress exempt itself from the program? Because it knows it's a bum plan.
Why would the law take more than 2,000 pages to explain? Because there are so many boondoggles and giveaways hidden in it.
Why isn't there more resistance from insurance companies, drug manufacturers, and the medical industry? Because they're all in on it.