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On the recordFebruary 5, 2025
Yes. And, to your point, when profit is the only motive, somebody loses out as in your example about, you know, a health clinic in a rural area. It is true also of education, right? I mean, it is pretty costly. It is not monetizable to have a school in a very rural area where teachers have to drive long distances; where there, you know, isn't a high volume of kids. So, if you live in a world in which the private sector gets to run our schools, then you are just going to have the haves and have-nots. You might have in-person education in the cities or in the suburbs, but those private equity firms will figure out pretty fast that it just doesn't make a lot of sense to run a bricks- and-mortar school in a rural area, and those kids will just be constantly telelearning. Those kids will just be staring at their screens all day long.
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Chris Murphy
Democratic · Connecticut
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Feb 5, 2025

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