How Thomas Sowell Long Ago Predicted Obamacare's Looming Failure

Forbes   "Thomas Sowell wrote a fabulous book, The Quest for Cosmic

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Justice, which everybody who wishes to understand the essential impossibility of creating a world of “fair” outcomes should read. The essential problems with trying to correct inequities of this sort are the enormous knowledge required to pull it off and the fact that the act of addressing the problem creates new inequities for other people. Using the situation of health care reform, we can examine this issue in depth and see why the Affordable Care Act will not create cosmic justice."
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All the thousands of pages of the Affordable Care Act serve the purpose of forcing some people to pay the costs for others in ways that they won’t notice.

 The Quest for Cosmic Justice   ..." It shows how "peace" movements have led to war and to needless casualties in those wars. It argues that "equality" is neither right nor wrong, but meaningless.
The Quest for Cosmic Justice shows how confused conceptions of justice end up promoting injustice, how confused conceptions of equality end up promoting inequality, and how the tyranny of social visions prevents many people from confronting the actual consequences of their own beliefs and policies. Those consequences include the steady and dangerous erosion of the fundamental principles of freedom -- and the quiet repeal of the American revolution.