The Sickness of MNSure

 

 

"If ObamaCare is Frankenstein's Monster, then MN Sure is the spawn of Frankenstein's Monster"

If you thought the news about ObamaCare was bad, wait until you hear the news about our homegrown edition of it, MN Sure. What a train wreck! It is like this entire program was put together in the back seat of a clown car. The best our Governor can do so far is to blame a major service provider, IBM. Well Governor, as someone who worked at IBM, I can tell you this much. They are good, very good - but they can't perform magic. Your product just must be this bad.

Some of the Democrats in the State House crafted a letter to Washington asking for Federal money to help out. One report I heard said we might be as much as $1B short in the next few years with MN Sure. This sounds like an echo of what is being said about ObamaCare. It was supposed to have saved us all money, right? More for less. If ObamaCare is Frankenstein's Monster, then MN Sure is the spawn of Frankenstein's Monster.

So how did we get here? How in the world did things get so bad, so fast? First off, our health industry did need some "fixing up" - nobody will deny that. Where our problem started was simply this. Rather than fix the areas that needed attention, our President (who wants to be remembered as another FDR or LBJ), decided to throw the baby out with the bathwater. Long before he ran for President, he wanted our country to look more like Europe, and less like freedom.

The vote, which passed by the narrowest of margins (thanks Al Franken), excluded the ideas of many who could have helped fix the fixable. Instead the watch was taken apart and the politically appointed health care team did not have the know how to put it back together again. So we spent money - lots of it. We continue to throw good money after bad to cobble together a program which now looks like an abstract painting. We have a government appointed, inept fool running HHS. And one just as bad who until December, was running MN Sure.

I can almost predict with certainty what will happen next. On a Federal level, the train wreck will only get worse. The "back end" of the website is still wide open, so the "handshake" between provider, patient and government can't happen. Pride will prevent the President from telling the truth about the true cost of this mistake. The deficit will explode even more than it already has. MN Sure will not get anymore money from the Feds. The Minnesota taxpayers will be the ones holding the glass for this lemonade.

Thank you local press corps for finally doing the honest reporting on MN Sure. Thank you Fox News for shining the light on ObamaCare. And thank you Mr. President for letting the plague of this health care mess be visited on our fine country.