Comments on: Health Care Reform: Trillion Dollar Spitballs http://aaronbrazell.com/blog/2009/08/11/health-care-reform-trillion-dollar-spitballs/ Unplugged. Sat, 31 Mar 2012 18:44:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4-beta4-20841 By: Keith Casey http://aaronbrazell.com/blog/2009/08/11/health-care-reform-trillion-dollar-spitballs/comment-page-1/#comment-2320 Keith Casey Tue, 11 Aug 2009 23:09:30 +0000 http://aaronbrazell.com/?p=327#comment-2320 Agile is built on a pair of premises: * We don't know everything - especially how things are going to change; and * We can make some changes as we go along and get rid of things that don't work and add to things that are working. The problem with government works on directly opposing ideas: * It knows everything and can define what is needed for everyone; and * That no metrics for success/failure be tracked or acted acted upon. As long as the Democrats aren't willing to a) define the problem they're solving, b) put metrics on how they're going to track it, and c) allow the programs to be held accountable, this is going to be a catastrophic failure. Actually, check that... it won't be a "failure". If you're unwilling to define success, there's no way you can fail. It's like when I worked at Border Patrol... more captures in a year showed better enforcement while less captures in a year showed better deterrent. Agile is built on a pair of premises:
* We don’t know everything – especially how things are going to change; and
* We can make some changes as we go along and get rid of things that don’t work and add to things that are working.

The problem with government works on directly opposing ideas:
* It knows everything and can define what is needed for everyone; and
* That no metrics for success/failure be tracked or acted acted upon.

As long as the Democrats aren’t willing to a) define the problem they’re solving, b) put metrics on how they’re going to track it, and c) allow the programs to be held accountable, this is going to be a catastrophic failure. Actually, check that… it won’t be a “failure”. If you’re unwilling to define success, there’s no way you can fail.

It’s like when I worked at Border Patrol… more captures in a year showed better enforcement while less captures in a year showed better deterrent.

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