by Rick Lowe
"There you have it — an approach that might allow the new Prime Minister to cling to his notion of socialising almost every risk that he can think of (a mistake, in my view), but combining that new socialism with some new competition and free choice. Not the best of all possible worlds, but second best, and attractive in the absence of opposition alternatives to current policies, unless you count preaching against chocolate oranges as a national health policy."
The paragraph above is how Irwin Stelzer, director of economic policy studies at the Hudson Institute and a columnist for the Sunday Times closed a recent article for the Spectator magazine titled Memo to Brown: people must be allowed to fail.
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While Stelzer's memo is to the Prime Minister-to-be of Britain it could very well have been directed to our Prime Minister Perry Christie and his want-to-be Prime Minister and current Minister of Health, Dr. Bernard Nottage.
To paraphrase Stelzer, both Christie and Nottage know the benefits of competition and how it benefits the consumer, yet they will ultimately take away Bahamians choice in health care.
