I believe Medicare is run efficiently. More efficiently than the HMO's and PPO's. The health insurance the politicians and seniors get. It's run pretty well.
And just because most government agencies have been run poorly, doesn't mean that has to be the way it is. Or, you don't take a government run thing and outsource it if it means it's going to cost us more money.
But if you are not defending Bush or what he did, then I agree with your premise. But he used your premise to get away with fleecing the treasury.
And I'm all for outsourcing things that make sense. Unfortunately, for the past 8 years, Bush has been outsourcing things to his buddies, and charging us a premium. It didn't save us money and in some cases, they had corporations making decisions that should have been left up to government officials. But since those officials were just Bushies, I guess it didn't matter that Corporations were making government decisions.
What you have said is all true and you make good points. Let's hope Obama outsources the right things and doesn't outsource things that are better left to the government.
Did you listen/read the story I provided at the beginning of this thread?
Yes I did actually, and it was a interesting story thank you sealy, but my point all along here as it has been in the frist posting was that there are some things the Federal Govt. just is simply bad at doing and that is true when it comes to the civilian service or delivering service to people in general. I do agree that the system need to be reformed and in such a way as to allow it not to become this giant money source for friends of whatever party happens to be in power but more a bidding process issue that makes it fair and open, where not only the best bid wins but the most qualified. There are also issues involved in come cases like the US Military as I mentioned before where IMHO there has been too much outsourcing and it needs to be reviewed but that the limited personnel make it difficult without adding additional rotations to existing guard units or instituting a draft which again would in my opnion decrease the fighting ability of the Military. On the Medicare issue sealy, did you know that most of that is now outsourced? Did you further know , that when a Senior or someone that calls Medicare is now talking to a contract company? The same is true for many departments within the Federal Govt.