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by rafale 1646 days ago
There are differences. The biggest one imo is that the government is a package deal, it doesn't have a lot of granularity. Whether with private spending, you can chose/change/leave your service provider, giving the latter an incentive to perform. And giving you more options than 1. At least in theory, when the free markets operates well.

Private healthcare in the US has a lot of government intervention and regulation that makes it a farce.