First about Kings and Presidents. In this decade we locked up an American citizen without his Constitutional protections. No charges, no legal representation, nothing. Years pass and finally it comes to where the judiciary acts and ends that. Years of life gone without so much as a trial. Now it's true that was eventually corrected, but it was the will of the President which made a travesty of justice. In fact there is no guarantee that a case will even be heard. It would be a mistake to assume that a President would be held accountable for his actions.
Regarding the healthcare law, yes I am extremely skeptical about it considering the lack of understanding of health care by those who's job is to write rules and legislation. Regulations which are often written which have inherent contradictions. Regulations which have been used to punish practitioners who acted in good faith, yet because of conflicting rules were able to be punished. In NY Elliott Spitzer hired temps to go around to pharmacies after having identified such situations with the purpose of fining to make money for the state. He was saving us from "corruption" of course. Right.
I've seen where the government by it's own error knowingly allow a man to die because they enacted regulations which changed billing information before sending out new medicaid cards. Those rules prevented anyone in government from giving out the information, and would make criminals of people who tried to circumvent them. Eventually it was corrected, but too late.
So yes, I'm skeptical of a huge bureaucracy with the power to destroy. Can something good of it? Yes, but I wonder what the law of unintended consequences will bring.
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