Thursday, September 10, 2009

Ah, Yes. Gummint "Efficiency"

No doubt that ObamaCare will deliver "efficiency" to put commercial insurers to shame.

/Sarcasm

Let's examine (Hot Air did) another ObamaProgram.

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood says the government has approved $1.22 billion in reimbursements to car dealers for sales under the Cash for Clunkers program. …

The rebates led to more than 690,000 new car sales at a taxpayer cost of $2.88 billion

Total, $4.0Bn dollars spent.

$2.88Bn on Gummint Overhead.

$1.12Bn of reimbursements.

That's FIFTY-EIGHT PERCENT for overhead.....

2 comments:

Jay Bullock said...

Important correction: See update below.

CapnEd says.

Assuming that the average rebate comes out to $3500 (the program used a sliding scale), that comes to about a 4% overhead.

4%<58%.

And what's funny is that Ed continues: "That might not be bad for a health insurer, but for a rebate program?" In fact, that's about half the real administrative costs of Medicare and about 1/7 the real administrative costs of your average private health insurer.

Um, WIN?

Jay Bullock said...

And no correction from you. Classy!