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Originally Posted by Pete F.
Most governments, are in charge of the military, its care, its operation and other functions that the people in charge choose.
In your simple world, what would replace all the cronyism and how would it be prevented from occurring?
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You said he received socialized medical care. Socialized medicine is defined as "the provision of medical and hospital care for all by means of public funds."
Walter Reed Hospital does not provide medical and hospital care "for all." It is for military personnel and Presidents and their family. It has nothing to do with socialism or socialized medicine or socialized medical care. Capitalist systems generally provide service for military personnel. It is neither Capitalism nor socialism. It is military, which is its own ism.
But it depends on for profit entities to provide personnel and equipment. By and large, those entities are large, corporatist companies which are in a crony relation with government, as well as universities which have transformed into corporate like entities that focus on expanding their base and student body, and enlarging their income, and which, like crony capitalist hospitals, place more power in administration than in the hands of the teachers and doctors. And both corporations and universities must satisfy government demands and ideology or face debilitating regulations, so settle into crony relations with government.
And I've already discussed free market vs. highly government regulated market with you. . . to no avail. In your complicated world, government must dictate. Rather than protecting the free market, government must regulate it, and the more the better. And it especially must provide health care. Otherwise, it won't work
I wasn't getting into your question "what would replace all the cronyism and how would it be prevented from occurring?" I simply made the unimportant point that Trump was not getting socialized medical care.