Study Materials > List of Misconceptions, Confusions, and Conflicts Concerning Socialism, Communism, and Capitalism Home – by Paul Brians

Privatizing services makes them more responsive.

Note: This study guide is presented here as a historical document only. Paul Brians is retired and his courses are no longer offered by WSU.

What it makes them more responsive to is market pressures, which don’t always reflect public needs. American aversion to “socialized” medicine is almost matched by American disgust with for-profit doctors and health plans. Private bureaucracies can be as callous and inept as public ones. Sometimes political processes are more effective than the market in creating responsive services.