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Doctors nurses and hospitals deliver healthcare, not the government (even in Canada) - if you believe in universal access as a right, then what happens if the private sector can't or won't provide it (and the evidence strongly suggests this is the case) how do you ensure that it happens?



The private sector can and will step-in if there's money to be made. If a company isn't making money, one first has to ask the question why not. As I said in my previous post uf the company is doing everything they can and still not making ends meet in a particular area, then the government, either local, state, and lastly federal should incent these companies to remain through whatever means it has at it's disposal. Government assistance should be the exception, not the rule.

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Are you suggesting that public education be privatized?


Yes. Although not overnight. The government should be ensuring that all areas have schools and that all schools meet educational standards, nothing more. No matter how you look at it, privately-operated schools do much more with much less than public ones do.

Just think of how great our primary and secondary school system would be, particularly in cities which now tend to fair the worst, if you had a choice of where you sent your child to school. How good your teachers would be if they were paid more, were better educated, and if the school didn't meet your standards you took your kids (and your money) and went elsewhere with it. Schools would have a vested interest in the teachers they hired, teachers would have a vested interest in the school they worked for. Without fail, competition yields higher levels of service at lower costs.

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What other institutions would you apply this philosophy to ... law enforcment (FBI, CIA) or the military perhaps?



The Constitution explicitly states that the government is to provide (rather than promote) us with some services, among these are national defense. So, no, I do not suggest privatizing the above groups.

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