Hi Elephant:
> Since you bring up the National Health Service, Platt, I'd like to be told
> just exactly when it was that the UK government had to put tanks on the
> streets to enforce free health care for all. I'd also like to know whether
> your assumption that efficiency is in all cases greater with the addition of
> competion is actually backed up by any evidence whatsoever. I refer to the
> fact that compared to the supposedly gun-enforced state monopolies of the
> NHS the competiotion rich US health insurance system results in you Yankees
> paying about twice the proportion of GDP on a public health provision which
> is comprehensively worse in every way.
Worse? Any evidence whatsoever?
> I also refer to several well understood phenomena in economics such as
> transaction costs (so that for example fifteen companies running a railway
> cost more than one company running a railway) minimum profitability (so that
> there can be a limit to how far competion can increase effeciency - beyond
> which deregulation to stimulate new market entries and competition can
> actually lead to *both* lower standards of service *and* higher prices, as
> for example when the deregulation of buses lead to fragmentation and the
> breakdown of useable timetables), and finally natural monopolies, where
> there is a practical limit to the number of pipelines/motorways/railway
> lines/cancer specialists etc than can connect London and Birmingham.
>
> It seems to me that MOQ preaches awareness of something beyond your idee
> fixe, and that you should therefore attend to the facts.
What I especially like about the MOQ is that it doesn't preach, unlike
you and Rigel.
> Message ends (but not festering annoyance woth ideologues, which continues).
Thanks for the sermon. Unfortunately, I cannot control your feelings.
Governments, however, can control behavior by seizing your property,
fining you or jailing you--or all of the above. Therein lies the danger to
freedom--Dynamic Quality's "only perceived good."
Platt
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