Markets have essentially prevented this from being a reality. Government can't pay anything close to competitive with the private market, if they did it would b

Markets have essentially prevented this from being a reality. Government can't pay anything close to competitive with the private market, if they did it would be an easy target for "government waste", and even if they could, why take a job that could be axed during a budget cut? The people doing the firing could justify it by claiming an outside vendor would be cheaper anyway.