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I think now is a good time to see that privatizing essential services was a pretty dumb idea.

The only thing that could work is either have a natural public monopoly on the health sector (for essentials) with direct democratic control measures (otherwise the "beancounters" will corrupt it) or just pour public money on it and hope it sticks. It's pretty obvious by now that the market won't regulate itself and will not care if people die. If it's not profitable enough they won't care (and by they I mean the abstraction of individuals who would care but are on distance by capital/stakeholders or psychopaths).

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