Healthcare FAIL

I’ve been thinking about this for a little while, and I was prompted recently by a friend’s blog.  I need to comment on the President and federal government’s attempt to fix the health care system of 300 million citizens (give or take a few thousand).  Did ANYONE think they can fix it in 6 months?  A year?  4 Years?  Ever?  Hell no … They aren’t going to fix anything.  Why?
Because it’s not in their nature to do anything against how Government works!  Congress is all about deal making.  Nothing is going to be voted through if there isn’t a tipping point of favors to be promised and pocketed.  This is a bi-partisan issue.  Laws don’t get made until the congress-people and their influence peddlers get their way.  Won’t happen, not even with the most popular president.  nu-uh, isn't gonna happen. 
As for the President and his party, they’re not going to do anything stupid to jeopardize political clout.  If they fight for the bills they want and threaten vetoes on everything that doesn’t meet standards, and nothing passes, then they look like failures.  They couldn’t get anything passed.  David Brooks says it best in this NYTimes Editorial:

“When the executive branch is dominant you often get coherent proposals that may not pass. When Congress is dominant, as now, you get politically viable mishmashes that don’t necessarily make sense.”

This is why I propose the federal government just drop it completely.  Send all the decisions down to the states.  If the states want to fix the healthcare system, let them.  Let them figure it out on their own terms.  If you don’t like what your state ends up with, move to a state with the plan that fits you. It will be like how people look for jobs and benefit packages.  Some states will figure it out, some won’t … oh well.  Elect smarter more honest people to office.
Another reason to send it to the state is the fact they are a little easier to monitor, to manage and to enforce a transparency law.  Documenting who is getting what money from whom in real intimate time.  I think we can do a better job managing the pork in our own pen, in comparison with the the sty we try to manage thousands of miles away. 
This will also spread the influence peddlers thinner .. it will be harder to get the favors and pocket money into that many pockets with any efficiency. 
my solution.  if I were king for a day.  Drop the ball into the State’s laps.