30
Dec
2013
Is UPS Just as Bad as Healthcare.gov?
My latest at Mises Canada. An excerpt:
Paul Krugman is no stranger to silly statements that come back to haunt him, but it has been particularly amusing to watch him twist and turn with the debacles of Healthcare.gov, the website devoted to “ObamaCare.” Krugman’s latest analogy is nothing short of hilarious, but first let’s review the backstory.
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Since Krugman asked so nicely, I’ll explain to him why the UPS/Amazon debacle is not remotely analogous to Healthcare.gov…
I included a link to the following gem for the Canadian audience, but since so many of you had never seen the Internet prediction, let me shine a spotlight on it here:
Of course, Amazon and UPS also have a long track record of providing good service to their customers, and this is mostly a freakish occurrence. The same cannot be said for healthcare.gov…or the ACA in general.
I’ve always said that statists impose a much greater standard of success on markets, than they do on government activity. Any little hiccup in market activity is proof markets are flawed and in need of governmental “help”, while the government is messing up multiples of times greater and statists won’t dare venture the possibility that the market process should take over what the government is messing up.
When the private sector messes up, your package arrives a day late.
When the government messes up, millions of people are executed and/or starve to death.