Yeah, my take-away was that the kludgeocracy serves to mask the function, purpose, scope, and cost of governance. So long before we get to addressing the concerns @Rhyfelwyr raises, we're lost already.

As a father of three kids, and family provider of health insurance and all its attendant headaches, I see this in action every week. Instead of some sort of open debate about what kinds of costs and services we should have and pay for, everything is hidden behind a very high wall of cross-purposes, conflicting services, masses of paperwork, and a general kludgeification. I am not even slightly surprised that $0.20 of every dollar spent on healthcare goes to administrators trying to shove the costs onto someone else.

Kludgeocracy serves to prevent an open and honest debate about the direction of our country. And for some people, as outlined in the article, that is a very profitable situation.