For example, in spite of the billions spent on the NIH we had the fantastic 
public health failure of COVID-19.  

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That's a bold assertion. I'd argue that any surviving bureaucracy works *most* 
of the time, almost by definition. Of course, *new* bureaucracies probably fail 
most of the time. Then it would be important to be able to talk about 
bureaucratic novelty. E.g. the ACA (ObamaCare) was not a *new* bureacracy. And 
it didn't really fail. There were various stalls and hiccups. Now that that 
bureaucracy is up and running, it's "working" ... maybe not optimally. But 
optimality is persnickety.

In any case, only data would resolve the disagreement. And in order to gather 
data, you'd have to be explicit about measuring "work", as well as novelty and 
bureaucracy.

On 3/29/21 9:41 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
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> Bureaucracies barely work most of the time.

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