This short history of socialism explains a lot. Excerpt:
"While visiting Denmark recently, I developed an infection in my hand and wanted to see a doctor. The hotel in the provincial city where I was staying directed me to a local hospital. I was quickly shown into a consulting room, where a nurse questioned me and told me to wait. Only a few minutes passed before a physician entered the room, examined me, and said in excellent English, yes, indeed, I did need an antibiotic. He promptly swiveled in his chair, opened a cabinet behind him, took out a bottle of pills, handed it to me, and told me to take two a day for 10 days. When I thanked him and asked where I should go to pay for the consultation and the medicine, he responded simply, “We have no facilities for that.”
"No facilities for that.
"It’s a phrase that comes back to me every time I’m reminded how, in the world’s richest nation, we still don’t have full national health insurance. And that’s far from the only thing we’re missing. In a multitude of ways, we’re known for having a far weaker social safety net than many other wealthy countries and behind that lies a history in which the Espionage Act played a crucial role."
Meanwhile, in Sacramento...
The local electricity provider is publicly-owned SMUD (the Sacramento Municipal Utility District). Surrounding communities use PG&E. SMUD is 35% cheaper than PG&E. PG&E executives, while paid orders-of-magnitude more than SMUD execs, have lately been compelled to consult with criminal attorneys because they might face negligent homicide charges for short-changing maintenance that led to enormous forest fires and explosions of gas pipelines (San Bruno).
Socialism...works better and is cheaper.
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