I don’t hear anyone (well some, but very few and usually not taken seriously) suggest police and fire departments should be for profit, so clearly it’s understood that some services should not be profit driven.
But apparently it’s a huge leap to extend that to healthcare.
Getting the patrol aspect of policing privatized would cut down a lot of the worst of the stuff cops get caught doing.
You don't see rent-a-cops going off and killing people.
The inspection and compliance related clerical work that a lot of municipal fire departments do could probably be privatized but I don't see an argument for it like I do with cops since they're less abusive. Nobody ever wrote a song called fuck the fire department.
Haha, I just saw a video the other day of a couple of “bounty hunters” (bailbondsmen) pulling up with tactical gear and rifles and kidnapping some kid because he had the same name/ethnicity.
Naturally (and thankfully) these idiots are being charged, but one of the kidnappers sat in an interview whining about how his job was too hard because he lacked qualified immunity.
Are you referring to something like the current private security patrol or an actual police? If it's the former it already is there, if it's the latter I'm not sure how that'd cut down on the amount of bad things police do today.
And as I'm sure you know, the answer to why it's a huge leap for healthcare is the obscene profits that healthcare companies make off of the healthy, the sick, and the dying.
Now let's recognize that we live in a system that fully supports this trading of health and lives for money.