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What is fucked is many other countries with healthcare have powerful privatization lobbyists also working their asses off to privatize essential public services. The Canadian and British healthcare system has been in jeopardy for years due to that.
It’s also the same crap conservatives do with the government in general in the US. Cut budgets and make institutions dysfunctional, then say that the dysfunction indicates it should be privatized.
What scares me is that the US and Canada Postal services might turn private... and trying to make them public again would have someone insist on debating 'but how are we going to pay for this incredibly expensive service? It failed before' when nothing about that was ever remotely true.