Public sector and private sector efficiency

I have heard that

"Record levels of government investment in the public sector has shown that such a strategy does not always lead to improvements. In fact, public sector productivity has fallen by 3.4% in the past 10 years while private sector productivity has grown by 27.9% in the same period. "


http://www.statistics.gov.uk/articles/nojournal/TotalPublicServiceFinalv5.pdf
http://www.cebr.com/Resources/CEBR/Public%20sector%20costs.pdf


i'm wary of anything coming from the CBI, but that is still an interesting stat if true

The role of the market in healthcare provision

this is an argument many on the left don't really like to have.

For just about everyone in politics, it's far easier to just dismiss arguments out of hand rather than make the difficult decisions about compromise. It's equally true of the right, who slavishly follow the market argument dismissing the state out of hand.

David J Olson, Director of policy communications, Global Health Council is the man who wrote the letter.
He praises the working of the market, but the key thing is how much the drugs are subsidised. if they can be subsidised, then great because that means people can actually get it