Re: non-profit stuff that is better than for-profit stuff
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I'm not sure I get this "free market/non-profit" dichotimy. Nonprofits are PART of a free market, not an alternative to it.
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Free marketeers regularly make a distinction between economic activity by businesses and non-businesses (governmental or non-profit). With sources of funding other than sales, non-business organizations are said to operate beyond free-market forces. So yes, they all exist in proximity, but the argument we're having is over whether not-for-profit organizations can, in some cases, produce better results than the free market outfits. And we are defining "better" in terms other than market success.
Without this distinction, we could say Medicare is part of the same great big market as anything else, and its results cannot be blamed on it not being free enterprise, because it's part of the same market as everything else.
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