[hidingfearful]

> US outspends all the other developed nations at healthcare, education, childcare and yet is behind them all in actual results with poor education, high infant motility and lower life expectancy

US healthcare and childcare are private, not government. Likewise I suspect much of the education cost is private colleges/schools, not government.

You seem to be arguing that the private sector is less efficient and more corrupt than the public sector.

[vjvjvjvjghv]

“ the private sector is less efficient and more corrupt than the public sector”

That is easily the case if you aren’t careful. Private health insurance has a big incentive to drive up cost of the medical sector so they can take a few percent as profit. Defense contractors have almost no incentive to reduce costs, quite the opposite.

I guess it depends on what you call efficiency. If you define efficiency as extracting maximum profit then modern corporations are very efficient. If you define it as providing products and services at low cost, then they are inefficient.

[FirmwareBurner]

>US healthcare [...] are private, not government.

What's Medicare and Medicaid and why do they cost the government over 2 trillion?

On a per capital basis, even if you don't include private healthcare spending, the US stil spends more per capita on healthcare than the other developed countries.

https://www.pgpf.org/article/how-does-government-healthcare-...

[sjsdaiuasgdia]

> why do they cost the government over 2 trillion?

Because these are interacting with and purchasing services from a market-driven healthcare system which is optimized for profit, not health outcomes.

[FirmwareBurner]

Thanks for defining corruption.

[sjsdaiuasgdia]

Medicare and Medicaid exist because, as a society, we decided it was better to not let the old, the disabled, and the poor have zero access to health care.

Medicare and Medicaid are expensive because we incorrectly apply market economics to healthcare.

None of that requires corruption. It's a mixture of over-commitment to market-based solutions and a bare minimum of empathy enshrined into law.

[FirmwareBurner]

You keep talking around the point and moving the goalposts. I never criticized Medicare and Medicaid. I criticized the US system which outspends all other developed nations, while obtaining poorer results. A lot more money is being spent but looking at the end results it's clearly not going to the right places. So where is the money going? That's the very definition of mismanagement and corruption.