"ikke" > wrote in message
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> > America's health care the best in the world."
>
> The US health care may rank among the best.
> Unfortunately only those who can afford it have acces to it.
> The others have to make do with far less or with nothing at all.
>
> Privatisation usualy has the following effects to the customer:
> - rising cost
> - less service
> - less quality
> - less safety
> - less reliability
>
> Want examples?
> Take a look at what happened to the infrastructure for electricity
> distribution. (owned , but hardly cared for by the energy concerns)
> Hightension lines have been neglected for decades, very little has to go
> wrong in order to experience a major blackout - as happened only months
ago.
> Take a look at the brittish railroad network. Since the privatisations,
> investments in maintenance and security plummeted.
> It is now considered the most unsafe railroad network in all of Europe.
>
> A nation is healthy when it can support its citizens by providing them
good
> and affordable education, health care, social security,
> public transportation etc.
> A healthy nation is a more productive one.
> The state has little control over, and even less influence on these
services
> if they are left to the corporate world.
> Expensive education and health care result in a weaker and less productive
> nation.
> Fewer people will have acces to the basic needs.
> Those left out will be unable to be part of the economy and be a burdon to
> it.
>
> Any leader selling out to the industry clearly is not concerned with the
> well-being of the nation he's been elected to represent.
>
> Just my two cents.
> To stop the flaming before it starts: the above opinion does not intend to
> pick on the US or its president in particular.
> It's aim is to make the reader think about the problem,
>
Indeed I have thought about it and it seems to me that
a combination of public and private is best. For example,
public roads and private automobiles (do you want the
government designing and building automobiles?), public
airways and private broadcast stations, etc.

Of course private business always have the temptation
to fix prices, limit competition, etc. That is why there
are laws against such things. But with government
control, quality always slides down hill to a level of
"good enough" - which has no relation to "good".

How good are the government-provided roads in
your area? In both quality and capacity?

How good is the government-provided health
care in Canada and England?

Think about it for a while.

Tony