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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: Road Walker who wrote (9665)9/21/2009 5:26:30 PM
From: i-node  Read Replies (1) of 42652
 
The government does much more good than harm for the economy, maybe by 100X.

I'm not quite sure how one puts a number on such a thing. The remark is so broad and sweeping I don't know how one makes sense of what you said.

Government clearly has a role and there are some things government does INFINITELY better since private enterprise simply could not do it at all -- for example, making law, running the court systems, national defense, national intelligence operations, and certain infrastructure items like the Interstate highway system. On a smaller scale, it is totally sensible to have basic city services like water and trash.

But there are all examples where government does better because there is no reasonable alternative. Where there is an alternative, I think we would almost always be better off with private enterprise doing it (I think that for no good reason other than the fact that I've never really dealt with a government agency after which I thought, "Wow! What a great experience THAT was!").
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