As opposed to HMOs, PPOs, or private hospitals -- they're not bureaucracies. They have offices, cubicles, bizarre hierarchies, irrational rules, long lines, arbitrary practices, Kafka-esque procedures, impenetrable maze-like buildings, endless red tape, mountains of paperwork, reams of forms to fill out to do anything -- but they're for profit, so they're not bureaucracies.
Wait a second -- aren't the Pentagon, the CIA, the Department of Homeland Security _also_ bureaucracies that are easily gamed by sneaky terrorists?
No, you idiot, "bureaucracy" is not a term that applies to the military, law enforcement, or intelligence agencies. It only applies to government agencies that provide public services and not to ones that kill, torture, kidnap, or imprison people, don't you know anything? You must be a raghead terrorsymp yourself!
--- "B." <docile_body at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Screen capture w/ FOX News headline, transcript:
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http://www.netscape.com/viewstory/2007/07/05/fox-news-universal-health-care-breeds-terrorists/?url=http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/05/fox-news-universal-health-care-breeds-terrorists/&frame=true
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> BOWYER: A state run health care enterprise is
> bureaucratic, and I think the terrorists have shown
> over and over again, whether it’s dealing with INS
> or
> whether it’s dealing with airport security, they’re
> very good at gaming the system with bureaucracies.
> They’re very good at getting around bureaucracies.
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> And if one of your guys is a jihadist, if one of
> your
> doctors is spending all the time online reading
> Osama
> bin Laden fatwas, someone’s going to notice that.
> But
> the National Health Serfvice is more like the post
> office, you know there’s a lot of anonymity, it’s
> easy
> to hide in the bureaucracy.
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