QotD
"Any system that has people spending more and getting less is,
by definition, not efficient. And these efficiency leaks are, almost
entirely, due to private greed. There is no logical way that a private
system can pay eight-figure CEO compensation packages, turn a handsome
a profit for shareholders, and still be 'efficient.' In fact, in order
to deliver those profits and salaries, the American system has built
up a vast, Kafkaesque administrative machinery of approval, denial,
and fraud management, which inflates the US system's administrative
costs to well over double that seen in other countries -- or even in
our own public systems, including Medicare and the VA system."
-- Sara Robinson,
"Mythbusting Canadian Healthcare, Part II: Debunking the Free Marketeers",
2008-02-11