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

To: Lane3 who wrote (13558)	2/25/2010 10:00:13 AM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 42652

You didn't answer: They do outsource more now. That's because they've sucked up more functionality. --- "More functionality"? Like what specifically? ----------------------------------------------- re: 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. To take more real world examples, governments in many places are outsourcing prisons. A to Z. All that used to be done by government employees. The army is outsourcing troop support functions. There are more private contractors in Afghanistan than there are US troops. All that used to be done by our soldiers. What more would you have them do in those areas? Private courts? Private armies?