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This 10 page paper discusses the move toward privatization of public goods and services, and argues that it is not always appropriate. Bibliography lists 20 sources.
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paper discusses some of the issues surrounding the practice of privatizing public goods and services. Privatization Overview The theory behind such privatization is "to increase efficiency to consumers and lower
costs to taxpayers" ("Slow Down Efforts to Privatize Benefits"). But there are instances when the theory doesnt hold up, such as the experience in Texas, when the state tried to
privatize its "public benefits system, including the eligibility and enrollment process for food stamps, Medicaid, the Childrens Health Insurance Program and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families" ("Slow Down Efforts to
Privatize Benefits"). Texas has been privatizing its benefits system for "more than a decade" by moving away from having offices in communities and instead using "call centers that handle cases
on an assembly-line basis" ("Slow Down Efforts to Privatize Benefits"). "In 2005, the state awarded a five-year, $899 million contract to a consortium of companies led by Accenture LLP to
privatize the call centers through the Texas Integrated Eligibility and Enrollment Services" ("Slow Down Efforts to Privatize Benefits"). Unfortunately, the privatized system hasnt worked well; it has had "technical difficulties,
staffing shortages and inadequately trained personnel," with the result that the Texans who depend on these systems to receive their benefits has "met with frustrating delays" and have sometimes wrongfully
been denied benefits entirely ("Slow Down Efforts to Privatize Benefits"). In addition to benefits systems, governments outsource repair work and corrections-a move that has proven extremely controversial. another extremely common
service that states have privatized is prisons, with predictably uneven results. Near Washington, D.C., a municipality has chosen "government workers over private contractors to fix vehicles, wash prison clothing and
dispatch firetrucks" (Mizejewski). The measure, strongly backed by the local unions, "would require the county to demonstrate a savings of at least 20 percent before privatization of public service work.
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