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I agree private welfare works well. I think we have it to an extent in Britain, but Britain has been a government run welfare state for nearly 60 years so I'm not 100% sure how private works within our system. A larger private system would make Britain's welfare state a little better.

However, my brother is officially semi-literate (health problems, I wont discuss) and he lives on welfare because he finds it hard to get jobs. The government run system seems to work wonders. They don't treat him as a drone but as an individual and they have done wonders at finding him tailored (no reading) work experience to keep his hopes alive because it is their responsibility to help him as a citizen. But that is just an uncommon case where the government would have the advantage I guess.

Private works well in the common cases I imagine. If you get what I mean, basically we could do with a larger private one, but Britain should also keep the government funded one too.