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Old 04-11-2012, 05:58 PM   #1613
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Originally Posted by Senator Clay Davis View Post
While you present a very strong case in point, and while I am a big fan of maximizing efficiencies, I find with health care in particular the issue relates more to lack of staffing or misuse of staff (i.e. not having enough people for peak periods etc...). I mean this massive facility in the south is about to open and they are going to need to hire a lot of people to staff that thing. I know there can be some efficiencies and savings, but with a growing population lowering costs while improving service seems like a mighty difficult task to achieve.
Agreed. But when was the last time administration was overhauled?

Healthcare aside, the government itself has an average of one manager for every four to five employees. I can't think of any company that has that kind of ratio.
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