Moral Validation

It occurred to me that Obamacare is not about the implementation of a policy, but rather of a principle.  Logical people would ask: how can we provide the best quality healthcare to the most people at the lowest cost, while maximizing freedom of choice? This is a good question.  It is not the question that was asked.

The question that was asked was “how can we ensure that all Americans get the same level of healthcare.”  As I have said before, you can be equal both in poverty and wealth, and since socialism doesn’t work, the default outcome is poverty.

But the word validation keeps popping in my head.  I feel–and this is just an intuition–that the importance of Obamacare is not that it will work.  Nobody serious expects it to work.  What is important is that those who passed and supported it get to say “I am the sort of person who works for equality”.  This is the sine qua non of the Socialist non-ethos, the Socialist mire.  Equality–which amounts practically to conformity/uniformity–is the only value of those incapable of qualitative expression.

I’ve dealt with these topics multiple places, and so will leave it there, but wanted to make that point.