Everybody who works fighting insurance companies, who stops and looks at what a single payer system is, wants to work in a single payer system. Insurance companies are death panels that try to suck every last drop of blood out of the corpse while the heart still beats. You forgot evil. Stupid, mean and evil. They may not start vile and terrible people, but after a few months they all end up in the same place. But the battlefield claims adjusters and benefits managers? They're fucking stupid. And mean. And stupid and mean. And their stupid meanness is expensive.
We recently discovered that we've lost our Waste Management rep. He was friendly, knowledgeable and accommodating. He has since been replaced by a kid who called my wife up in fear of losing his job because he didn't know he wasn't supposed to give her an OSHA training manual. He was supposed to charge her $40 a month to look at it. I surmised that the friendly, knowledgeable and accommodating rep took a look around himself one day and said "self, you are the only friendly, knowledgeable and accommodating person in your entire chain of command" and fucked off somewhere he wasn't alone. I surmise this because it was my experience in working with government employees - enjoy the clever, friendly ones while you can because they will eventually determine that it's no fun being alone. The ones that don't leave? They acclimatize to the prevailing environment and if they weren't stupid, mean and evil to begin with, peer pressure transforms them over time. An insurance company is an organization whose success depends on monetizing that which our society believes should be freely available to everyone. They are figuratively in the position of renting life preservers to drowning swimmers. I sincerely believe that anyone self-aware, anyone empathetic or anyone with altruistic tendencies self-selects out of that industry over time... either that, or loses their humanity.
I surmised that the friendly, knowledgeable and accommodating rep took a look around himself one day and said "self, you are the only friendly, knowledgeable and accommodating person in your entire chain of command" and fucked off somewhere he wasn't alone.
this encapsulates why the private sector is soooo much better at doing most things. As someone that has interfaced with govt in the past on a business level, I was appalled at their lack of knowledge, willingness to care about things like.... revenue and profitability. The old adage people that can, do. People that can't teach. Should be, people that can, do. People that can't... work pushing paper in govt jobs