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Hard to find words for something that does not exist. I agree "public service" is not the most appropriated one, but wanted to deliver the message in a commonly interpreted words.
At the moment yes, they are private. Should they stay like this? I don't think so, and I agree providing it for "good" is not the solution either. Especially housing and transport.
No, your problem is higher up in the analysis: there are no public services, you can't identify "key" domains that somehow need to be separated out from other provisions. The entire idea collapses, to speak Marxism, under its own contradictions
And if you did/what govts do today, you're stuck trying to ration access and figure out who carries the burden and how much.
It's not bullshit.
They're a capitalist firm operating in a market. They're not providing care according to democratic needs or some socialist's well-informed value system. (An interesting experiment of worker-focused and flat org, but very much within rather than separate from capitalism)
Buurtzorg operates in a market, yes. Worker-owned, self-managed, no external shareholders extracting profit. The surplus stays with workers, reinvested in care. Better outcomes at lower cost than the Dutch bureaucratic system. Can you see what's making the difference?
These models prove you can organize production around human needs and get better results. But of course, by your imperialist standard metrics, this doesn't compute. I don't blame you. There's nothing personal here.
than the Dutch bureaucratic system.
government-supplied/paid-for health care isn't anywhere close to the capitalist themes of markets, commerce, production mediated by prices. Knock me over with a feather
"Imperialism," like all your other buzzwords, is unimportant and irrelevant. (Also: archaic: the 19th Century statism called and wants its ideology back)
People often confuse public service with community service. Is not the same.
I am telling you from my own (communist) past: anything that will come from a "public service" is not free and comes with a high price, much higher than any price you will pay directly to a private provider - your freedom.
Who is offering a public service will make people to DEPEND totally of that service, it's a TRAP.
confuse public service with community service. Is not the same.
This is, community service, voluntarly powered community services. Localized, without being tied to a nation state or other fictional entities. What aim to say is that there's a need to switch our common perception and models we currently know, to something that has not been defined yet. We can only by try, fail to do better. Capitalism, like communism, like democracism are all failed models.
For example, buurtzorg is a great example of community powered healthcare scalable model that has been expanding organically from northen Europe to Oceania in the past two decades. There are so many other examples.
There's no such thing. "Public service" is a lie, presented to people so they think is something as a "common good", but is not.
Those services are also made by PRIVATE sector, only that are paid from a centralized pool of money, managed by crooks. Every time there's centralized pool of money, crooks will come and take advantage of it.