Thursday, October 24, 2013
Productivity
Watching C-Span hearings on Romneycare website failures. One of the witnesses said that they have handled about 4000 paper applications, which are the only for-sure applications.
4000 in 24 days. That's about 160 people per day.
We've paid over a billion dollars for this mess, and it yields 160 forms per day.
160 paper registrations per day is the same scale of activity as a small hotel. When I worked in a hotel-like facility on the OU campus, we checked in and out a similar number, generally between 100 and 200 per day. We had 6 people working the desk (2 per shift) and another 6 back-office employees to file the cards, send out bills, etc. This check-in process took only a small part of our work time. We had plenty of time to chat, study and watch TV. Our wages in modern dollars were about 20k per person: 12 people * 20k = 240,000 per year.
So Romneycare is producing at the same rate as the OU conference center, and costing 4000 times as much.
Amazing. But that's only part of the amazingness. If this super-fast productivity continues, we'll be able to insure all of those famous "47 million uninsured" in a mere 677 years. So we just have to wait till 2690 AD, and all our health care problems will be solved.
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