I am not saying bureaucracy by itself is good or bad. I am saying that Government bureaucracy is bad. For everyone. Why? Because Government bureaucracy has no competition.

You see bureaucracy is prevalent in large Capitalist companies as well as Government. However, when you find a bureaucracy in a Capitalist company you will find it is doing it's best to compete with other bureaucracies in it's market segment. This competition is what keeps businesses healthy and profitable.  Competition also allows these companies to provide better services for less money. Simply put, competition is vital to giving the customer more of what they want for less money.

The problem arises when you assign a segment of the economy that was previously controlled by a competitive, Capitalist bureaucracy to a Government bureaucracy. When the Government controls a market segment they make competition illegal. This means that the service you receive, and the price you pay for that service, is no longer controlled by the customer, it is controlled by the bureaucracy.

Say what you will about how politicians will be responsible to the citizens, and that through elections we will be able to control the level of service, as well as the prices, in a Government bureaucracy. The truth is that one of the principle tenants of any bureaucracy is politics. If you have worked in a large bureaucracy, whether it be Governmental or not, you know that politics make the bureaucracy run. And the one thing you can say about politicians is that they only look out for themselves. Oh, and they lie, cheat, steal, etc to do so.

So, with the recent passage of the Government Health Care Bill we have given 1/6th of our nations economy, as well as the Capitalist bureaucracies that make up our current health care system, over to a non-competitive Government bureaucracy. (It's going to be a Government run health care bureaucracy, regardless of what the pundits are saying.) And that means that we have given up our right as consumers to tell the health care system what we want.  

We have given up choice.  

We have given up freedom.  

We have given up the power we wielded as consumers.  

...and we will be worse off for it.