Medicare is quietly being privatized. Does anyone care?

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Medicare is quietly being privatized. Does anyone care?
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Well there's both sides, I mean while in theory it's just the free market making a stopgap for the weakpoints in medicare to buy time for them to be fixed. The reality is we already know what happens when corporations get their hands on something that shouldn't be free market. They rack up killer profits, and use those profits to buy congressmen and judges, and before long not only is congress not going to move forward to stregnthen medicare to cover those holes... but in fact create new ones to make sure that medicare becomes even less valuable without one of these plans.

The reality is we already know what happens when corporations get their hands on something that shouldn’t be free market. They rack up killer profits, and use those profits to buy congressmen and judges

So they do exactly what they do with things that should be free markets, also.

100% exactly. Which is why I believe that free market private sector should never be allowed anywhere near things that aren't luxuries. I don't have a problem with free market giving us shitty movies, video games, televisions etc... but yeah, it should have been yanked from every level of schools, medical care, police, housing etc... decades ago.