>Do the private hospitals and schools actually have better outcomes, after controlling for the initially better socioeconomic status of their users? Regarding

>Do the private hospitals and schools actually have better outcomes, after controlling for the initially better socioeconomic status of their users? Regarding private schools, I'm not sure; I imagine it's hard to study as there aren't many people of high socioeconomic status attending the 'worse' public schools, and not many poor people attending expensive private schools. There might be some data from countries like Sweden, where the government introduced a voucher system allowing parents to send their children to whatever kind of school they wanted and still get government support. Regarding public hospitals here, they do have awful outcomes in terms of waiting time compared to private hospitals. For instance, waiting over a year for a procedure that could be arranged in a few weeks at a private hospital. I'm not sure about other outcomes.