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> In the US that would mean allowing the same bureaucratic organization that manages Medicare/Medicaid to manage a transportation app.

Why are you keeping your public companies in such a bad shape?

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My understanding (outsider perspective, based on what people have told me) is a combination of silly complicated laws pushed by politicians to keep people from abusing the service, lobbying by private healthcare providers (insurance etc) to keep government assistance limited and purposefully annoying and politicians against "big government" underfunding institutions to see them fail.

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