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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: epicure who wrote (236316)7/13/2007 5:15:50 PM
From: Constant Reader  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
Yes, you are understanding me correctly. And there are exceptions. In fact, you mentioned the one remarkable exception that always comes to my mind: Medicare. Their claims paying system was horrific for decades. Now that most of the "paperwork" is done electronically, the average time between claim and payment is a couple of weeks instead of a few months. It is contracted out, but that was true when it was almost all paper.

It seems to me that, whether it is a large government or a large business, the bureaucracy ultimately assumes a life of its own and looks after its interests first. That said, these days we are witnessing accelerated life-cycles of corporations/technologies (genesis, mature and might-as-well-be-terminal) within our lifetimes, something that was rare before.
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