The government wants to expand into health care. They already have one job that could be commercially done, but that they are Constitutionally required to do – the post office. How is that going?
2009 saw unprecedented mail volume decline
* Agency cut $6 bln in costs, 115 mln work hours
* Seeks shorter delivery week, further benefits relief
* Without changes, sees 2010 loss of $7.8 billion
Note the “Seeks shorter delivery week”…. it is like a mail “death panel” and Saturday lost….
The Post Office’s problems is that politics drives their business model and they have a large, unwieldy, unproductive, and expensive union work force.
When the government brings those kind of mad skills to healthcare, they will screw up the best healthcare system in the world.