Editorial: Slow down effort to privatize benefits
Source: San Antonio Express News, 11/20/2006 06:47 PM CST
The theory behind privatization of public services is to increase efficiency to consumers and lower costs to taxpayers. But as a new study by the Center for Public Policy Priorities suggests, that theory doesn't always hold up in practice.
......... No one doubts the state's system of public benefits needed modernizing or that, like any other bureaucracy, it could operate more efficiently. But Texas has either gone down the path of modernization and privatization too quickly or it has gone down the wrong path. And vulnerable children, the elderly and people with disabilities have paid the price.