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> it’s insane watching everyone around me get gaslit into thinking the government is actually efficient. It's equally insane to me that people think the private sector is somehow efficient. The amount of resources used to feed profit alone are a huge waste.
Wild red herring fallacy, I’ll bite. The private sector is indeed filled with lots of inefficiencies, but due to the profit motive and presence of competition, there’s massive incentives to correct those inefficiencies slowly over time. You'll make more profit doing so! Hence, the private sector is constantly self correcting itself and becoming more efficient via creative destruction. You can just look at the numbers…
This is simple. Look at Medicare Advantage plans versus traditional Medicare. The same amount of care costs 23% _extra_ using Medicare Advantage. How is this more efficient? It's not.