That's often the case once things have gone private, so to speak. When business gets tough, then subsidies and bailouts are demanded so that they can serve the public, but that's a very inefficient, indirect way of funding something that is a public necessity. It would be more sensible to just cut out the middleman, but I'm not sure what level of deregulation and privatization we have and how we could design a road map to go back to public ownership and control. That would take a bit of time.
