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I've worked for both and they are inefficient in different
ways. Government is not as efficient as the private sector.
But, government is designed to be inefficient, because we want
it to be that way. For example, I had to bid out all contractual work, no
matter how small. Very high overhead in developing specifications and
evaluation criteria, putting together committees to review and rate all bids,
etc. We did this to ensure that favoritism was eliminated (needless to
say, this was not the federal government or Iraq). This was costly and
inefficient, but required by law (Your elected representatives passed that
law.) There are similar provisions in all aspects of government to protect
the public dollar. So don't expect government to have as its highest
priority efficiency. It wasn't designed that way.
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Bob
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Sent: Monday, March 08, 2004 5:46
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You're kidding right? Or do you actually
believe this?
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Dave
Johnson
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Sent: Monday, March 08, 2004 2:12
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Big corporations are no more efficient or
effective than is big government.
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Ron
Cernokus
To: <A
title=realtraders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
href="">realtraders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Sunday, March 07, 2004 10:40
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A couple of years ago a friend
of mine was telling me about an extremely bright mutual acquaintance
of ours. After completing a dual doctorate, he had gone to work
for Monsanto as a researcher. However, he quit after two
years stating that they had very little interest in tackling any
major health problems. Their main interest was easy fast-dollar
type drugs like we are seeing advertised so much on TV.
Ron
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Sent: Sunday, March 07, 2004 9:08
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You might as well get your facts straight. First, the US spends 14%
of GDP on healthcare which is the highest percentage of any country in
the entire world. Second, in spite of spending the world's greatest
percentage of GDP on healthcare, 40% of our citizens have none, zero,
zilch health coverage. Third, 50% of that 14%, or roughly 7% of GDP, is
spent on healthcare administration, almost all of which goes to private
insurance companies and HMO's, not the government. The government
run Veterans Administration medical system is a disgrace to those who
served our country. The government run Medicare system is extremely
efficient, consuming roughly 3% of premiums paid.
Those of us who can afford healthcare are well taken care of.
The 40% who can't afford healthcare coverage, receive little care,
and most of that is delivered in public hospital emergency
rooms at taxpayer's expense. What's obvious is that the
healthcare system, currently in private hands, has run
amuck. I don't know what the solution is.
Earl
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it's the governmentt regulations andinvolvement in
our medical system which has created a lot of the problemsvis a
via rising health costs and insurance issues. And this doesn't
evenaddress corruption, fraud, waste, abuse,
inefficiencies,and
incompetence.
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