medicaid fraud

Medicaid fraud, in New York alone, is costing billions of dollars. This is just one of endless examples of areas where good government makes a difference. Some governments have more fraud, some have less. Some help their people more, some don't. Some create a beautiful environment, some don't. Some are efficient, some aren't. We simply need competition to see who works the best.

The current system - everyone has to choose just one government for everybody - seems designed for inertia and frustration. Imagine if other services worked that way. Imagine if everyone had to choose one store to shop from, and that store got all the sales for the next four years. Westerners would call it crazy, and grumble about the inefficiencies of communism. Yet that is exactly how we run our governments! I say give people a choice, let them start their own rival government agencies (whether for welfare, detective work, or whatever) and we will soon find a hundred better ways to run things.