The uncertainty principle

Kausfiles:

Lots of talk on the Sunday chat shows about how the uncertainty over health care reform is discouraging businesses from hiring, since they don't know what sort of taxes, etc. they'll be facing. But if what business wants is certainty ... well, at this point the fastest way to get certainty is for the Dems to pass a bill quickly, no?

My response:

No -- this measure makes uncertainly perpetual. A hundred federal agencies will be issuing diktats; no business can ever keep up with them or be sure it won't be blindsided.

And if anxiety among the people is the problem ... ditto. I'm 58. I know what my insurance covers now. But if ObamaCare passes -- I will never know if one of those hundred agencies has just passed a diktat that will hurt me. I may be OK -- but what if the over-65 crowd pushes through a new mandate, and Congress decides my cohort should pay for it? OK, we Boomers have had a lot of clout so far. But what if Congress starts thinking like the ad agencies -- we in the 55-to-65 set are too, um, set in our ways, we'll never switch brands, so they can abuse us at their will.