No, it is a FACT that adding drugs as a benefit without all the overhead of cards and private companies and no-negotiating prices would be more efficient.
It would cause less work for the applicants and members of the system, but it would push the administrative costs on to the government, and also if implemented the way you apparently want it to be implemented, it would effectively be imposing price controls. Price controls, whether explicit government regulations about prices, or a government monopsony setting the price, are just about never efficient, and can be disastrous.
They aren't shy about privatizing Iraq, privatizing (trying to) Social Security or Medicare for that matter. This is a pillar of the GOP's ideology.
Privatizing Iraq, is a weird concept, and not one anyone supported. Privatizing a country would basically mean setting up an anarcho-capitalist system, with no real government. No one, or at least just about no one every proposed such an idea for Iraq.
Privatizing Social Security has been proposed, but has never been the policy of the Republican Party, or any Republican president, or any significant block within the Republican party. The same is true for Medicare and Medicaid.
Now that is a word with actual real world applications such as the privatization of Iraq.
No fascism isn't allowing private enterprise to work for its own interests, fascism's economic policy is to force private industry to work for what the leaders see as the interest of the nation. Its similar to socialism, but has a key difference in that the corporations are not actually nationalized. They have private ownership, and are allowed to make profits, but they have to line up behind the national agenda. The closest we got to such an economic system in the US was under FDR. |
