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Aetna CEO Threatened Obamacare Pullout If Feds Opposed Humana Merger

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142 points helloworld | 2 comments | 17 Aug 16 17:52 UTC | HN request time: 0.409s | source
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warfighting ◴[17 Aug 16 18:27 UTC] No.12307055[source]▶
How long would a government run tech company survive in the valley? Now tell me again why you want them centrally planning your healthcare?
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1. csallen ◴[17 Aug 16 18:37 UTC] No.12307159[source]▶
I never understood this mindset. It assumes that the govn't is incompetent (which it often is in many areas, fair point), but then ignores the most obvious response, which is to diagnose and fix the problems at hand. Simply abandoning the government solution is not the only option. In fact, one of the government's biggest problems is that so many people are obsessed with neglecting/sabotaging it just to prove some point that it's bad.
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2. zeveb ◴[17 Aug 16 20:07 UTC] No.12307978[source]▶
> It assumes that the govn't is incompetent (which it often is in many areas, fair point), but then ignores the most obvious response, which is to diagnose and fix the problems at hand.

It's utterly impossible to fix the problems of government competence because Americans don't want their government to be competent. They want it to be supportive, and diverse, and all sorts of things, but competence is not one of them.

If American government were competent, it would hire precisely the people whose unions donate so much to American politicians.