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[deleted] OP t1_ixejgh4 wrote

Reply to comment by Ancient_Boner_Forest in Why can't Cambridge manufacture their own insulin for its residents with Type I diabetes? California is going to manufacture its own insulin. by [deleted]

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Ancient_Boner_Forest t1_ixeoeet wrote

I’m asking for examples where government does it better than a competing private business.

Also not all of this is even government owned. The us power grid for example is not

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aclockworkporridge t1_ixey408 wrote

Those are examples of things that were at one time private and have been nationalized for the most part. Aspects are still contracted out, and like you said, grids are privately owned, but much of the work to get rural areas electrified was federally managed.

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