Reply #78: Our utilities were far more efficient

[ThomCat]

and better maintained when they were public utilities. Now that everything is privatized everything is inefficient and sucks.

Public healthcare, such as it already exists here (medicare) is much more effient and cost effective than private health insurance. Their overhead is a fraction of what private insurance companies require.

In the delivery of public services the federal government has repeatedly proved that it can be more fair, more efficient, and more cost-effective than public alternatives. This idea that government is always less efficient than corporations is an unsubstantiated myth.