I don't think so. The privatization of British Railways is one prominent example. The current system of HMOs and private insurance in the United States means people here pay twice as much for healthcare as the rest of the developed world, and 40 million people still don't receive coverage. I'm not even going to try to think about Russia under Yeltsin.

I'm generally for private enterprise, but there are a couple of things best left to governments. Dubai has given for-profit corporations control of neighborhood planning, for instance, and the results have not been to my liking.