Will the Public Option in Health Care Be a Bureaucratic Nightmare?

The one thing no one is talking about with regard to the public option health insurance plan is what people will have to go through to sign up.
Just applying for a non-driver photo ID from the Department of Motor Vehicles can be an all-day process. And government bureaucracy being what it is, I can't imagine the sign-up process being as quick and easy as opening a bank savings account. When it comes to a program that calls for the government to shell out big bucks, you know applying for it will be no walk in the park.
No doubt an applicant will have to go to some cluttered office with a maze-like arrangement of cubicles, be required to produce a plethora of documents (Social Security card, birth certificate, rent lease, etc.), and be photographed and fingerprinted. Things you don't have to do with a private insurance company.
If that daunting bureaucratic way of doing things prevails, the public opinion of the public option will produce jeers, not cheers. I hope I'm wrong, but something tells me I'm not.