Originally Posted By: Mithus
You can not put in the hands of private companies, certain essential services.

You can not put the defense of your country, your police, your education system in the hands of a private corporation, as you should not put the Health of your people on the hands of private corporation, because to them what matter is the profit, you cannot measure whatīs the price of human life. You should not make decision on how much you cost a treatment.

There are essential services should be managed by government and security,education,health care are essential. Itīs good remind why do you have a government, to promote the common good, which pillars are security,education,health.

So want to have profit? go fund a new software,automobile,food or whatever industry you like, there are some sectors that you cannot put profit as base of decisions.

You do not know the extension of a health system managed by a big corporation, they define every thing, you cannot fight against them.

The discussion about which level or branch of government like state or federal would be in charge of it, is another history and discussion.

I have to disagree.
You can put a price on someones lives: that's how much they cost to be saved. You could say everything must be done whatever the price in some things but if "whatever the price" include other people's work or rare resources it means either endorsing slavery or not caring about how better used those rare resource may be later on.
And guess what? Healthcare means people's work. So saying you don't care about how much it cost to save one life means you don't care about the hours doctors and nurses will have to work to save this person.

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