A study published in Health Affairs looked at the basic reason health costs have soared. Previous studies blamed the consolidation of medical providers. This one noted the real reason: of the 19 regions with the highest hospital costs, 11 existed in California, the “most regulated state” of the nation. That statistic shocked those who study such things. For REGULATION had the opposite INTENDED effect. San Diego U-T 6/7/22
Really, however, it’s a no-brainer. If you do basic math, you realize that more regulations require more regulators. Which require bigger bureaucracy, which require more bureaucrats to draw salaries, which require higher prices charged to those receiving services. But some people are too intelligent to do simple math. They dream of the outcome they WANT achieved by their bloated bureaucracies—and FEEL they’ll achieve them. Don’t bother them with details! The nature of bureaucracy doesn’t matter—secular, medical, business or religious—each becomes in itself the reason for its existence, an all-consuming absolutist organization that considers its rules sacrosanct, its decisions final and submission to its presence inviolable. Jesus faced it every day of his ministry, confronting intelligent men with no give in their take, no ability in their flex and absolutely not an inch of accommodation in their perspective. That’s why the KISS rule applies to administration: keep it simple, stupid—but never to teaching and preaching. No one ever suffered brain-damage from messages HARD to understand. But no limit exists to the number of people experiencing brain-death by hearing the KISS method applied to the teaching of God’s word. That’s my opinion. What’s yours?
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