I have to apologize for focusing on the PPACA lately. Unfortunately, the news on the rollout, destined to hit the health care of Americans with full force on Jan 1, 2014, is coming fast and furious. I think it is important to “connect the dots”.

US News and World Report says that Top hospitals are “opting out” of the PPACA.

One quote from the article stands out:

“In many cases, consumers are shopping blind when it comes to what doctors and hospitals are included in their Obamacare exchange plans,…”

In other words, the vaunted “transparency” of the exchanges is a sham, because what you get may be far less than you would with an existing private policy, and the exchanges don’t tell you that.

Markets work. Markets are unavoidable, which is what the Soviet Union discovered when they tried to suppress them. You can tax away the citizens’ money, but if you try to force people to accept less for their work, they might just quit.