Reply #100: Not the same thing. I'm sure the school we built was able to offer the land cheaper.

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The real question is what percentage will go for profit if we go down this road and what will happen to the not for profits when we do. We still have some not for profit hospitals around, too. But they are now just as expensive as the for profits. The whole system becomes contaminated when you start turning the public money over to private systems. I've seen it in health care. I've seen it in our state where they privatized the state workers' disability system, I've seen it in our military where we now contract out services the military once handled themselves. In every case, EVERY case, the bill got higher and services got worse and harder to access. You're being scammed.