Comments on: Avoid overlap in your answers http://fistfulofeuros.net/afoe/avoid-overlap-in-your-answers/ European Opinion Thu, 24 May 2012 18:13:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Blank Xavier http://fistfulofeuros.net/afoe/avoid-overlap-in-your-answers/comment-page-1/#comment-38530 Blank Xavier Tue, 20 Jul 2010 07:48:27 +0000 http://fistfulofeuros.net/?p=7820#comment-38530 > Andrew Lansley’s been doing health: we’ve more > to hear on this, but the doctors themselves, > as represented by the BMJ, don’t much like > what they see. State monopolies (health, education, etc) are favoured by the monopoly providers (doctors, teachers, etc) because they insulate the providers from the consumers. In the UK, over the last twenty years, less than twenty teachers have been dismissed for incompetence. If the BMJ don't like it, it may be because it acts to remove some of that insulation - which is, for the consumers, an entirely good thing. > Andrew Lansley’s been doing health: we’ve more
> to hear on this, but the doctors themselves,
> as represented by the BMJ, don’t much like
> what they see.

State monopolies (health, education, etc) are favoured by the monopoly providers (doctors, teachers, etc) because they insulate the providers from the consumers.

In the UK, over the last twenty years, less than twenty teachers have been dismissed for incompetence.

If the BMJ don’t like it, it may be because it acts to remove some of that insulation – which is, for the consumers, an entirely good thing.

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