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In reply to the discussion: Are you sick of highly-paid teachers? [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)Read the OP.
And then think.
What would happen if for-profit companies delivered education to our children the way they do healthcare to all of us?
Think how high education costs would rise if we had a number of companies with highly paid executives and lots of private bureaucracy and profit standing between our children and their teachers.
What if every school had to handle the billing processes of a number of different insurance companies? How much additional staff would that add, how much additional money would it cost to support for-profit schools to deal with the number of students that our socialist public schools instruct?
And the idea that private schools are necessarily better than public ones is baloney. My daughter attended public Magnet schools, was in a college study group with girls who had attended expensive private schools. They were studying chemistry. Guess who had the best high school chemistry teacher? Guess who got the best grade and generally got the best grades in college? You guessed it.
Public education paid for by all of us is the most cost-efficient, effective education.
And guess what? My children who attended public schools got the bonus of attending schools with children from different backgrounds, different races, ethnicities, languages -- a perfect preparation for working in the real world.
If we move to single payer, we will insure everyone and save money per insured. There is no way that single payer will cost us per insured person what our current insurance costs.
What may add to the expense is insuring everyone. But even that will not add as much as we might think. And what kind of person thinks that some people should go without health insurance?
I'd hate to think what kind of person that would be. But when you say that we cannot have single payer insurance, that is effectively what you mean and what you are saying and the kind of person you are.