But.... but.... I thought that competition was supposed to drive the price down!

Greed, greed and more greed.

There has ye tot be a case where privatization has not raised costs and/or reduced the quality of services.. usually after a few years and peoel are no longer paying attention.

Kind of like hwo they came otu with all those high scores at Charter schools, but they didnt' mentiontht the schools only accepted students who already performed well. Then after a few years scores for most of those charter schools, dropped below regular public schools, even though they cherry picked their students with the higher scores to start.

A for profit system demands cuttign corners for higher profits. Always. There are soem things which simply shoudl never be privatized. Healthcare and education are just two.

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it just became insurance then