On Wednesday 14 March 2007 09:57, Tim Churches wrote: > I agree with Greg. The Netherlands aren't plagued by Federalism as we > are, but otherwise they are a country of the same order of magnitude > population with a not entirely dissimilar mixed public- and > private-sector health care system, with similar national health > insurance plus private insurance and so on. If they can do it, and the > Danes, then why can't we?
Because they don't have a barnackle overgrown medieval minded technophobe "yes minister" bureaucracy (a fractal one at that, growing in complexity while going down in scale from federal to state to ....) - they have a modern public service "industry" wholly owned by the taxpayer. The main difference being that over there the taxpayer says "jump" and the bureaucrats have to, whereas here it is the opposite. As somebody mentioned it before - the tail wagging the dog, the one paradigm ruling all of Australia it seems. Horst _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
