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Originally Posted by Bilbo1967
I fit sthe same porunelle I kow he is quite a good writer, but also quite ignornat about health care - I jaust have to agree with zerospin ..
But it also makes one of the divides to discuss here quite apparent - there is just an enourmous numbers of americans who are suffering from the super delusion that "not onvented her - BAD. Soory guys the rest of the world, and especially the rest of europa is at least as intelligent as you and sometimes has the better solutions
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Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy does not specifically address public health care or any other public service, it addresses bureaucracy. In this case the folks that run the healthcare system under any public health care system.
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Originally Posted by Harmon
Let me introduce you to Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy - which, as a member of a federal bureaucracy for some 37 years now, rings true to me:
"In any bureaucracy, the people devoted to the benefit of the bureaucracy itself always get in control and those dedicated to the goals the bureaucracy is supposed to accomplish have less and less influence, and sometimes are eliminated entirely."
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I too am a US Federal Government bureaucrat, although not for as long as Harmon, and I agree with his assessment about us.