Never wholesale, but largely because there was a long tradition of resisting Federal government services. So, very many government services were and still are

Never wholesale, but largely because there was a long tradition of resisting Federal government services. So, very many government services were and still are at more local government levels. Still, there are things ripe for privatization, such as commercial rockets, as another poster pointed out. Then there are complete failures like privatized state and local prisons which are nonsense—what does it even mean to have a competitive market for prisons?—or our monopoly-by-design internet services held hostage by the large ISPs. These should be largely government run. But then the monstrosity of US healthcare is a design-by-committee. A pure private system with regulation AND mandated 100% price transparency of services; OR a Japanese/South Korean style national healthcare would still be better than what we have today. It’s hard for me to give a cohesive answer because it’s such a mixed bag.