OT: Health insurance nightmare looming

Public health care administration is often complicated because it is usually decentralized (to meet local needs with local resources, and avoiding the suggestion that "one size fits all.") This is normal in places like Germany and Holland (where medicare is 100 years old) and Britain (60 years.) There is a lot of paperwork, which costs money and is no fun, but the people usually get the medical treatment they need.

The USA acquired in WW2 the reputation of being able to organize and complete complicated tasks that Allied forces had been unable to do (e.g. Burma Road, USN CB construction of airfields, logistical supply of fuel and ammunition.) It seems a shame if the USA today has lost its "can do" attitude.

a central program will no doubt save big bucks by minimizing adminstrative workers..... the upper eschleon workers with big paychecks

a cookie cutter approach for each state

It can=92t be any worse than the private sector which has proven itself to = be selfish and egotistic.

Recently went through setting up medical insurance plans after my former employer, DuPont, decided to cut us retirees loose with a subsidy and choice of plans from an outside firm instead of just giving us insurance.

We spent hours on the phone, maybe half the time in signing up with government mandated regulations having had to be explained to us.

Wonder if the federal government will do what the insurance firm did and hire people in India to guide us through this. I assume the Indian phone people made a couple of bucks an hour vs if they used people in the US it would have cost 10 times as much.

It's more of a "I don't want to" attitude. During WW2 we were fighting for our survival. Big difference.

The article did cite the requirement that each person enrolled must be vetted by the IRS. The integration and communication between two massive data sets - one not yet designed - seems to me (speaking as one who owns a small software firm) to be a "logistical nightmare." Call it something else - "End of the World," "Armegeddon," "Cluster-f*ck," whatever, it will be a bigger problem than the Year 2000 disaster!

No, wait.

Never mind.

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a central program will no doubt save big bucks by minimizing adminstrative workers..... the upper eschleon workers with big paychecks

a cookie cutter approach for each state

LOL Typical pinky argument No facts Just emotional labels..

The private sector is so selfish that they pay, on average, $1.00 when MCare pays around 60 cents and MCaid around 45 cents for the same thing. Even the trustees of MCare note that what they pay hospitals results in a negative profit (I like the way bureaucrats say things).. In otherwords, the federal programs don't even cover their own costs making it necessary for the selfish private sector to make up the difference.