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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TimF who wrote (6029)	2/11/2009 6:09:54 PM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

No sensible person should think they can be so exact with estimates of government efficiency vs. the private sector, or with deadweight costs of funding things through our tax system, but the 1st is a real issue, if difficult to quantify, and 2nd has been estimated by studies to be around 70% on the marginal additional federal spending dollar. * On the first... Depends on what the spending is for. Absolutely if the government planed to build a plant for Intel Corp then they would be far less efficient. However if Intel was trying to build an Interstate road they would certainly be less efficient than government. On the second you didn't provide a link so I have no idea what study you are talking about. But some projects are by nature inefficient.