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Originally Posted by GGG
What makes you think the UCP will do this effectively?
Let’s look at lab services. Smith chose to privatize lab services into a monopoly under dynalife rather than having the public and private sector compete and price check each other. Monopolies lead to higher prices and the only thing worse than a public monopoly is a private one.
In general I am in favour of private sector involvement under a few conditions. Where people have frequent contact with the system they can make an informed choice and where competition exists.
So privatizing a hospital where the private sector will deliver publicly funded services doesn’t do much whereas family doctors are a good use of private delivery and publicly funded.
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I didn't vote for UCP. And I agree I wouldn't trust them to pull it off. Still, doesn't change that fundamentally I feel semi-private is our way out of the mess we are in.