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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(115,966 posts)
Sat Dec 7, 2024, 06:16 PM Saturday

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 Washington’s vast bureaucracy.

It was 1982, and President Ronald Reagan’s Grace Commission began its quest to get rid of hundreds of billions of dollars in wasteful spending.

Much like President-elect Donald Trump’s “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 Commission’s 150-plus members persuaded Congress to enact exactly zero of its recommendations.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/rude-awakening-store-doge-bros-110044574.html

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paleotn

(19,374 posts)
4. Private health insurance costs...payments to providers + op cost.... was well north of a TRILLION dollars in 2022.
Sat Dec 7, 2024, 08:53 PM
Saturday

$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)
2. It wound up costing them
Sat Dec 7, 2024, 06:52 PM
Saturday

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)
3. "persuaded Congress to enact exactly zero of its recommendations." Because none of them had a prayer of ever passing.
Sat Dec 7, 2024, 08:30 PM
Saturday

The Grace Commission! Now that's a blast from the past. Forgot all about that. Same shit, different day.

Girard442

(6,415 posts)
5. The problem with the article is that they don't account for Trump being a sociopath.
Sat Dec 7, 2024, 09:05 PM
Saturday

Experts: "Trump can't do X because Y number of people will starve to death."

Trump: "No they won't. Do it."

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