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Comment by rayiner

> the people who run government funded health facilities are a different set of people that run education or transportation. Only the funding source is the same.

They’re the same people. Government employees, belonging to the same unions, subject to the same incentives.

> Would you put your parents in a nursing home paid for by Medicare? I would, because I saw the care my grandmother received from such a facility

Medicare and Medicaid go out of their way to not be “publicly delivered services.” Medicare pays for privately managed elder care facilities, which may well be owned by a private equity company.

parent rayiner 4 years ago

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