While I oppose ACA completely, my criticism is with the execution of reform, not the intentions behind it.
Democrats create awful laws with the best of intentions. Republicans just sit on their hands.
Republicans held a strong position during the first six years of Bush 43. They could have enacted many needed reforms in health care, in tort reform, in border security, in the growing mortgage bubble, in reforming the tax code, in reforming entitlements. They did nothing. Zero. They sat on their hands.
As bad as ACA is, I at least give the Democrats credit for tackling much needed and difficult reforms in health care. ACA, like Dodd-Frank, simply didn’t do what they intended. They just added more problems.
My criticism is that Democrats are too much like the old USSR economy planners. They think they can change a whole economic sector and do it in one swoop, and it will all somehow work out according to plan. It won’t because it can’t.
