Recommended: The Truth About Bureaucracy

I recommend Matt Bai's piece today in The New York Times entitled The Truth About Bureaucracy. Government does some wonderful things for us, but it is not an unmixed blessing. Anyone who has had to deal with the IRS or argue with some distant and anonymous Medicare bureaucrat about coverage has had a taste of the problems with government agencies that have little or no accountability to the public.

I agree with him - this legacy of distrust is certainly a factor in the public concern about the administration's health care overhaul.