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[quote user="Phoebe Vet"] I disagree.  When the military does it itself it is much cheaper than it is when they sub it out to a for profit company. If you get the Republican stated plan to eliminate Medicare and replace it with a voucher system you can use to buy insurance, just watch the cost go through the roof.  We have Medicare because the insurance companies don't want to insure old people.  There is no profit in it.  Old people go to the doctor and the hospital too often and take too many drugs. Check around your area.  Compare municipal water systems to private water systems.  Compare municipal garbage collection to private garbage collection. [/quote] I cannot think of any way to personally compare the cost of a service provided by the private sector to one provided by the public sector.  I have private trash service and public water/sewer.  There are no public trash pickup or private water/sewer services available.  Noteworthy, however, is the fact that the public water/sewer abruptly raised the rate 100% in 2008 with no commensurate improvement in service.  The city hired a consultant and paid him for over a year to study the rates and come up with the idea for a 100% rate increase.  If a private sector provider did that, they would be put out of business by a consumer backlash, but we consumers have to choice to get our water/sewer elsewhere. <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p> I don’t doubt you when you say that private contractors charge more to the military than the cost of the military doing the work themselves.  But I would not necessarily conclude that that proves that the government is more efficient at delivering goods and services than the private sector.  If the government were more efficient at providing goods and services, they would demonstrate it by doing so.  The fact that they hire sub-contractors and pay them far more than the military cost for doing the same work might just as well be regarded as evidence of the relative inefficiency of government compared to the private business.    Moreover, if the government were the most efficient provider, why not just empower them to do everything?  What’s stopping us?
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