If you will consider the matter, I think you will see America suffers from a very bad form of socialism.
Make that socialism/capitalism.
Other countries, when they want socialism, are often smart enough to just let the government run it. But, the U.S. thinks it has to mix capitalism in.
And, socialism and capitalism are often a very harmful mix.
Take government housing: If a private entity is brought in, it will have all the incentive in the world to qualify as many people as possible. At the government's expense.
Take care centers. Not all of their customers are government funded, but many are. And, whenever the care center can qualify a person on government funding, it will. It has the incentive to do so.
Take hospice. The more people who qualify, the better for the hospice provider. Once again, the large part of the money comes from the government, so the incentive is to dig as deep into government funds as you can get away with.
Planned Parenthood? I wonder if it applies. Does it have incentive to qualify more in order to receive more from the government?
So, I wonder if when you have a social program, you ought not be wary about letting private enterprise in. Tell me again how the incentive to make a profit is going to translate into a better program. If you have to have a better product in order to sell, private enterprise can be great. If you are competing with others, and the difference is whether you do a better job, private enterprise can be wonderful.
But, that isn't the case with some of our government contractors. Many of them don't even have to bid on a contract. So, there is no incentive to hold prices down.
Rather, the incentive is to get as much money out of the government as possible.
In an age of wisdom, we have sure out-smarted ourselves on this one. All we care about is involving private enterprise. We don't stop to think about how the pieces fit together.
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