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

To: Road Walker who wrote (13555)	2/25/2010 8:50:18 AM
From: Lane3	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

It's my experience that governments are trying desperately to save money and they are outsourcing where ever it makes sense . Indeed, but that's not the point. If the government is outsourcing, that means they are hiring people to do the work of the government. Outsourcing only means that they use the public sector as contractors rather than hiring them directly. In either case, it's the government's work that is being done. Using the private sector as contractors to do the government's work is very different from the private sector performing private work. For example, the private sector has the function of manufacturing cosmetics. If the government took over the manufacturing of cosmetics it would contract out the factory work. The same factories would be doing the work but the former would be a private function and the latter would be a government function that is contracted out. The workers are the same but the bosses are from totally different paradigms.