I dunno if your idea of choice is to get four or five different companies to do exactly the same thing on the government's behalf, such as provide electricity. I have chocie here, but each company I can choose from is actually doing exactly the same thing... acting as a middle man between me (the consumer) and the government (the provider). Whether I use company A or company B, I get the same energy from the same plant. The only difference is the person I talk to on the phone and maybe the amount of money I pay.

So what's the point of this choice? To fool me into thinking there is competition? I can't think of any other reason.