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To: combjelly who wrote (695019)	1/24/2013 1:31:33 PM
From: i-node	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574350

>> You think there isn't waste in companies, especially large ones? Of course there is -- a lot of it caused by insane government regulation. But any large organization is going to have bureaucracy, and the larger the organization the larger the bureaucracy. However, large corporations are driven to efficiency by the profit motive. Look at Walmart -- the largest workforce in the free enterprise world -- mostly unskilled workers -- yet, one of the (if not THE) most efficient large organizations in existence. Contrast that with the federal agency of your choice. I don't know how much experience you have dealing with federal agencies, but I have a lot. I've never seen one that runs well. I deal with Medicare a lot now; they literally have no idea what is going on. Just as an example, most Medicare still requires Part B claim submitters to use dial-up modems. If a claim is denied they are unable to explain why other than archaic, meaninglessly generic "explanation codes" that generally irrelevant to the problem -- undoubtedly due to the sheer volume. If you call their IVR system, it cannot understand a word you say; totally useless. Not just me (as I have a heavy southern accent) -- no one I know of uses IVR because the piece of crap can't understand you. We don't have that problem with commercial insurance. Interestingly, Medicare claims are managed by private enterprise -- but because of regulation and government interference, organizations that function perfectly as standalone operations are totally incompetent when hindered by government. Medicare is estimated to exceed 100B/year in waste fraud and abuse. You think a commercial insurance company would tolerate that? No way. Medicare is starting to implement the same anti-fraud software that commercial insurance companies have been using for ten or 15 years. They're nowhere on it. Medicare and IRS are the agencies I'm most familiar with. Total train wrecks. But SSA is just as bad. And certainly, everyone knows what a bureaucracy the military is. The point here is that government is, as a collective, incompetent. Anything that private enterprise can do, it can most assuredly do it better than government.