Our system is based on a strong private sector and a strong public sector. After all that propaganda, to say something now in defense of government is the equivalent of admitting you watch Gilligan's Island. Like the schoolyard bully who says only wimps get good grades, the private sector says only chumps want good government. The private sector, which will step in to make profits. The rich, who want out of progressive taxes.
Bureaucracies are nothing more than information processing hierarchies.
They can do it well or they can do it poorly, but the determining factor is not whether the bureaucracy is in the private or public sector. In fact some of the worst excesses of bureaucracy are in the private sector. When the management goal is making a killing, or making political friends, or there is no management goal, bureaucracies get a bad name, whether in the private or public sector. Private health insurance companies in the United States, for example, are regularly denounced as complex unresponsive bureaucracies. Canadian author Herschel Hardin, who has documented inefficiencies in the private sector, says that while some criticize the cost of the CBC, few mention the cost of private broadcasting, and most probably think it is free.