I don't see how that addresses if Obamacare isn't socialism then neither are Police, Public Education, Military, Roads, etc.You can have private roads and toll people to use them... It is actually done world wide...
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Private education is common around the world too... People paid privately education during the 19th century.
Prairie Schoolhouses
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Even the fire services were initially private.
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Military used to be private militias and that is why the second amendment has its wording...
The same can be said for nearly all of these services... They are just not efficient and interfere quite heavily in commerce making US far less competitive or attractive for investment.
Many other countries have free third level education and they use that to attract foreign and domestic investment knowing they have a highly skilled workforce. This creates a more competitive country.
People can provide these services they are just highly uncompetitive and very unfair.. It doesn't make common sense but it can be done and has been done and in other countries are still done that way...
What I am saying is that there is a balance every country has one (well countries that are not completely failed)... Someone who says they want to end all socialism should be ignored as much as someone who says they wants to end all capitalism... Both are failed models of how to run a country.
From that position we just have to accept that they are both going to co-exist and we need then discuss how much of either we want.
In the UK off track betting is a completely private affair (regulated i.e you can't cheat)) while in New York it owned by the State and used generate money for the Horse racing industry.
While the opposite is the case when you look at NHS compared to US mainly privatised healthcare system.
Each country picks and chooses.
This is generally called Regulated Capitalism or Social Democracy, in Europe it is believed that the Market (Capitalism) should be for the benefit of the people and not just profit.
You seem to be picking and choosing selectively. Police, Public Education, Military, Roads, etc. are the role of government. If you are going to argue that is socialism then you should label every government agency and dollar spent by the government as socialism. Socialism has many forms, those aren't some of them.
