President Obama is still trying to downplay the launch failure of ObamaCare as if it were just a few glitches on a website.

No, it's much more than that. It is a timeless demonstration of the failure of central planning, government regulations, and the entitlement state. It is a failure so total, so comprehensive, and so multifaceted that it will be studied by schoolchildren 50 years from now when their teachers explain to them why the giant welfare and regulatory state built up in the second half of the 20th century collapsed in the first half of the 21st.



The lessons of that failure will not be new lessons. They're the ones we should have learned in the 20th century, when we had plenty of examples to draw from. But a generation has grown up that doesn't remember the 1970s, the failures of socialism, or the depredations of Communism. And because those topics are not yet part of a standard school curriculum, we've had to relearn them in the School of Hard Knocks, with Professor Obama giving us a refresher course.

In the hope that we won't have to learn this all over again another thirty years from now, here are ten big lessons from the launch of ObamaCare about why big government fails.

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