Privatizing essential human services like the VA can come at a high social cost
- Written by Sebastian Jilke, Assistant Professor, Rutgers University Newark
For-profit service providers may use discrimination as a way to make more money.wavebreakmedia/Shutterstock.comOver the years, countries have privatized dozens of services and activities once the sole domain of governments, such as the provision of electricity and water, road operations, prisons and even health care, with the ostensible aim of...
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