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Lieberman Won't Vote for Health Bill

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SixDegrees12/14/2009 10:36:15 am PST

re: #113 Obdicut

One benefit that I’ve seen personally is a much more transparent, user-friendly bureaucracy. I’ve had various private insurers over the years, and my involvement with their claims-filing process has never amounted to anything more than handing my card over to the care provider. End of story. Filling out a Medicare claim, on the other hand, is a nightmarish experience that makes Kafka look like a mildly pleasant, if boring experience. And God Himself will be unable to help you should your claim be questioned, or fall behind someone’s desk halfway through the Byzantine examination and approval process.

For comparison, if you’ve ever filled out the roughly hundred pages of forms required for FAFSA student loan approval, multiply that Augean labor by an order of magnitude and you’ll begin to appreciate the joys of government run rampant.