It’ll undoubtedly rankle Time magazine’s Joe Klein to be told this, but, as he makes clear in his column this week, he has somehow acquired an insight into the wisdom of President Reagan, who declared in his 1981 inaugural address that “government is not the solution to our problem, government is the problem.” (Let it be noted that this observation is offered in the spirit of humility, not as ideological one-upmanship).
Klein surveyed the accumulating wreckage wrought in the implementation phase of Obamacare — including this week’s announcement of a one-year delay in creating the exchanges designed specifically for small businesses — and observed that “the [Obama] administration has had three years to set up these exchanges. It has failed to do so. This is a really bad sign. There will be those who argue that it’s not the administration’s fault. It’s the fault of the 33 states that have refused to set up their own exchanges. Nonsense. Where was the contingency planning?”
