Emoting vs Accountability - Granite Grok

Emoting vs Accountability

Obamacare -Year of the SnakeThe Conventional Wisdom is that the Left loves to think with their hearts while Conservatives’ hearts are with their thinking.  Emotion vs reasoning.  As I said here, however, it seems that while the Democrats may have a show of caring and start lots of Government or Government reliant programs, they don’t want those self-same programs ever to be evaluated.  Those programs MUST work because, well, we just LOVE them!  We KNOW that they work because we feel good about ourselves from having created them.  Therefore, ANYone that criticized our intent must be a hater of whatever we tried to fix.

Facts, being stubborn things, seem not to matter.  And in this case, Mary Katherine Ham (of Hot Air via Betsy’s Page) takes the Obama Administration and its enablers to task for explicitly deciding not to collect the actual data that would tell folks “is this doing what it was originally meant to do” – get the uninsured covered (emphasis mine):

There is no clearer dereliction of duty for this law. They created an irresponsible reform behemoth, they failed to implement it responsibly, they spent irresponsible amounts of money building a bunch of exchanges that don’t work, and now they’re not even responsible enough to bother checking how much help or damage they’ve done with the most straightforward metric available.

They don’t care about how much of your money they spend and they don’t care about figuring out if they’re helping people with that money because they might have to admit to not caring about how much of your money they spend. This is why having government tackle complicated problems can be a problem in and of itself.

And then the Left wonders why we don’t believe them when they tell us that the downstream result is worth the upstream pain? Have they ever wondered that maybe if they would be willing to actually measure if something was a success, and then kill it if not, that Conservatives JUST might be a bit more cooperative?  That a large part of our stubbornness is due to never ending programs that demonstrably not meeting it raison d’etre?

With Obamacare, there is a TON of data being collected for all kinds of data mining views – but the absence of the most important ones scream out what Conservatives and Constitutionalists afraid of – this is not about healthcare and outcomes, but that its outcome is Control.

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