This shit drives me nuts. If government were run like a business, it would be bankrupt. Government does not pay executives several million dollars. The president is paid $400,000. The administrative cost of Medicare is 1.4%. For private insurance around 15%.
https://twitter.com/Jaaavis/status/1483193424085987329
The reason we spend more and get less than we used to from our government is we privatized a lot of it so it costs more and does less. A military contractor gets paid $100K to do what we pay our own soldiers to do for $30K. Ross Perot became a billionaire on government contracts
Business is profligate and wasteful. Let's stop with the "run like a business" bullshit. It's the same with nonprofits. Government and nonprofits cannot afford to waste the kind of money corporate America wastes.
Of course, Americans don't think of that. They think of the local small business barely scraping by and they think of how corporations pinch and scrape on employee wages and benefits. They don't think of the executives who burn money.
And our infatuation with the idea of running government like a business fosters more privatization, the very expensive chance to do less with more.
Add to that, with privatization comes loss of transparency and accountability. Malfeasance and corruption are hidden, not subject to public records requirements. It's a disaster.
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