I agree but I find it odd.

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.

Certain aspects of their jobs absolutely could and perhaps should be privatized.

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.

We already have private prisons. It's not much of a leap to also privatize other parts of the judicial system, including certain police forces.

This is an excellent point. We all seem to grasp that private fire and cops would be a an awful idea.

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.