42% of Democrats are in favor of socialism

Depends on how you define "worked out well"

The National Health Service.

But the most dramatic variation in satisfaction with these two facets of the healthcare system occurs in the United States, where only 25% are satisfied with the availability of affordable healthcare, but 48% are satisfied with quality. Once again, this dichotomy seems to support the hypothesis that private healthcare encourages high-quality standards, but may be a barrier to access and affordability.

So the U.S has better healthcare quality and better specialists for diseases such as rare forms of cancer than the single payer UK system. http://www.gallup.com/poll/8056/healthcare-system-ratings-us-great-britain-canada.aspx

National Railways

The story of rail usage under British Rail was one of inexorable decline. Between 1960 and 1995, passenger numbers fell by about a third. Since 1995, they have more than doubled. The dramatic trend reversal coincides exactly with privatization.

The bewildering plethora of fares offered by train companies — derived from innovations in yield management pioneered by British Rail; for example, increasing prices to match increased demand — irritates customers, but does appear to stimulate traffic while limiting public subsidy. More generally, privatization has achieved many of the things its proponents hoped it would: better trains, new timetables, more responsiveness to passenger needs.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/d192b1b4-458b-11e5-af2f-4d6e0e5eda22.html#axzz3ys3lNvrV

Public Housing: Public housing pushes rents higher for everyone else because of the arbitrary low prices. This especially screws over people moving to a new area who need to find housing.

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