Today, I stood in line at the Post Office (United States Postal Service) for over one hour with about 40 other people while a single clerk packed boxes for some of the patrons. When I got to the head of the line, I was greated by a surley and insulting individual. If this were a business that had to compete for customers it would disappear overnight.
I wondered while standing there if these experiences and similar ones that can be experienced while registering one's car are what destroys ones confidence in the abilty of the government to do anything including the delivery of health care. These examples are forunately not really representative of what the governement can do. Medicare operates with a 4% administrative overhead while that of private insurance is about 14% and I have heard 20%. Anyone receiving Medicare or Social Security has nothing but praise at how well those programs run. The Veterans Administration is more efficient in delivering health care than is the private sector.
