[lit-ideas] Re: Are you out there, Didier?

From: "Lawrence Helm" <lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 14:48:12 -0800

Now, wait a minute, Eric.  Don't say "In US medicine, for example."  US
medicine has got to be the worst in terms of red tape.  

 

For several years I was involved in negotiating Engineering changes to the
KC-10 with the Air Force.  I was the Engineering rep in the Program Office,
but I sat in negotiations with the Contract and Pricing administrators.  I
saw all the contracts.  Most of that stuff is boiler plate.  At another time
I was Program Engineer for the delivery of the last two DC-10s.  One went to
Pakistan and the other to Nigeria.  The same red-tape was involved as with
DC-10s sold to American airlines.  We had to go through quality control
wickets, get FAA approval for any change not previously approved (not a
problem on the last 2 DC-10s) and then there were things I didn't get
involved with such as "offsets."  Things we would do for a buyer to "offset"
the price he would pay for the aircraft - such things as free pilot training
at our training facility.

 

I assumed Teemu was talking about European red-tape that the American
corporation wasn't good at cutting as European companies.  

 

Lawrence

 

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Teemu: the companies having trouble competing in 

the global market place are more

often than not big US corporations .... I have a 

cultural explanation for this and in a nut shell 

it boils down to amount of red tape that makes 

Russian bureaucracy look efficent...

 

Teemu, this makes perfect sense to me. You may be 

interested to know that my Brazilian friends 

critique US medicine for the same reason. In some 

countries, certain issues can be resolved verbally 

and acted upon quickly. In the US, everything has 

to be documented and mediated by lawyers.

 

In US medicine, for example, doctors often are 

forced--in order to protect themselves against 

possible litigation by creating a lawyer-proof 

paper trail--to order tests they know are totally 

unnecessary, driving up the cost of health care in 

general.

 

 

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