Quote Originally Posted by Syme View Post
Defense is probably an obvious example. There's no way that a private company or any other non-governmental group could ever possibly provide the services of national defense that the United States government currently provides.
Well, the US government uses a lot of contractors for that work these days. Under normal circumstances though, I would agree that defense is one of the very few roles that the government should undertake.

EDIT: On the topic of health care, government health care programs in various European countries provide medical care at a substantially lower per capita cost than does the US system of private insurance companies. I'm not sure what you mean by "efficiency", but they are cheaper and don't leave 15% of the population uninsured, so that's a plus.
So, their shitty system is mildly better when it comes to cost than the shitty system we have now. How about we try a real free market health care system? One in which I can call around to clinics and hospitals and get real pricing information. I wouldn't take my car to an auto shop that wouldn't tell me their pricing, but I have to get my health care that way.