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es divorced from perfor nance.

All of which are bad for the
consumer.

Indeed, the public system
engenders perverse incentives
in the professionals locked
into it. Because competence is
rewarded with an increased
workload, but no remunera-
tion, it becomes intuitive for
the professional to overstate
the workload.

On the positive side, the
data show that the less com-

titive 2 system, the more
likely it is to benefit from any
competition whatsoever. Even
a whiff of competition then
will do our state-run sluggard
good. Only the gormless can
continue to insist that the rot
is due to underfunding, and
not endemic to the system.

_: With 2 monopoly comes an
inferior preduct to one pro-
duced by competition and a
chronic scarcity it services.

Further, although the pub-
lic pays many times over for
medicare through taxes, the
price of services is pegged at
zero. This is what induces an
insatiable consumption on the

- part of the public, the kind of
consumption that cannot be
quelled and will always yield
dire shortages.

Also looming is the prob-
lem of restricted access into

the profession which fuels the
shortages of doctors and nurs-
es. This is the consequence of
the tight grip the medical
association, in cahoots with
government, has on licensing.
Finally, a government-run
monopoly is never account-
able, not least because it isn't
subject to the direat of bank-

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