There's a rude awakening in store for the DOGE bros
Once upon a time, a brash outsider entered the Oval Office with a promise to drain the swamp. He brought in a posse of businesspeople, led by a leading industrialist, to work like tireless bloodhounds to root out inefficiencies in Washingtons vast bureaucracy.
It was 1982, and President Ronald Reagans Grace Commission began its quest to get rid of hundreds of billions of dollars in wasteful spending.
Much like President-elect Donald Trumps Department of Government Efficiency, the advisory board led by entrepreneurs Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, the Grace Commission had no authority to implement changes, only to advise.
And after a couple of years of work, the Grace Commissions 150-plus members persuaded Congress to enact exactly zero of its recommendations.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/rude-awakening-store-doge-bros-110044574.html
elleng
(136,592 posts)paleotn
(19,374 posts)$1.3 trillion in 2022 per the internet. With a little arithmetic, using your admin cost %'s, if we were all on a Medicare type plan, that would save $200 BILLION per year. Add insurance industry profit and the cost of providers having to deal with all these parasites, and that figure is much higher. That's a hell of a lot of money we're having to shoulder so Brian Thompson can make $10M+ per year. Well....he use to anyway.
nitpicked
(830 posts)In 1985 at A Certain Agency, the workload had increased and since they couldn't increase staff right away, those there were working overtime, in some cases mandatory...
paleotn
(19,374 posts)The Grace Commission! Now that's a blast from the past. Forgot all about that. Same shit, different day.
Girard442
(6,415 posts)Experts: "Trump can't do X because Y number of people will starve to death."
Trump: "No they won't. Do it."
Mr.Bill
(24,828 posts)He was just a better actor than Trump.