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How Privatization Happens (lemmy.ml)

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[-] Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 23 points 1 year ago

See Canada and healthcare for prime example

[-] nxdefiant@startrek.website 11 points 1 year ago

See Texas for the inevitable future.

[-] blindbunny@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

What's up with Texas healthcare?

[-] nxdefiant@startrek.website 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I meant the rush towards privatization in general, but you can pick almost any category and discover that Texas consistently underperforms given the size of its economy and population.

Health care specifically is like, bottom out of all states:

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/columnists/tomlinson/article/texas-health-care-ranking-bottom-18171519.php

Reasons vary, but the privatization meme applies to almost all of them.

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