I don’t think this statement by the author makes much sense in this context. The author states later that “the U.S. system of public-private partnership has proven its worth once again”, but one is not taught to expect much at all from the public sector in America; one is on the contrary told that the government can only make mistakes and that the private sector is more efficient and fault-tolerant.

If anything this “public-private partnership” goes against what Americans have been taught for the last half-century.