Just as it's generally a pretty bad deal when the market is asked to assume a bunch of responsibility that community previously handled, it's probably the sign of a poisoned world when the state takes it on.

And then you occasionally have the best of both, e.g., taking care of old people is now almost wholly a market service, which then at nearly the speed of light becomes a state service after the old people burn all their income so they don't have to pay any of it on their own care. I can't think of a more pathological example than that one, although maybe there are some.