Faulty collection notices tax residents' patience

The San Francisco Chronicle reports:

Here's one way to make up a budget deficit - send out a bunch of fake tax collection notices.

Apparently the San Francisco Treasurer's Office sent out a whole lot of erroneous collection notices to businesses last week. So many, in fact, that the phone system clogged up and folks wanting to challenge the fee had to come down to City Hall in person.

Of course the errors were accidental. But one person who received a letter (and asked to remain anonymous) said the business being taxed had closed three years ago and the tax claim was from 1992. She argued her $310 bill, but other taxpayers might just trust the city and pay up, she pointed out.

Will government run health care have these same sort of problems?