Yet successive governments have been resistant.
Teachers' unions have been resistant to even the slightest move away from the current tenure arrangement.
So while I have been sympathetic to that pressure, I have been resistant to it too.
However, physicians have been resistant to taking the time to do the documentation.
"Individual members have been resistant to the idea of restructuring," said Mr. McGreevey's press secretary, Micah Rasmussen.
Traders in the livestock pits tend to be older, however, and have been resistant to a different way of trading.
So far, the Mets have been resistant to offering a four-year contract to a starting pitcher.
Mr Blair also acknowledged there was a problem in failing to convince medical professionals who have been resistant to change.
Pakistan is the main obstacle to a fissile materials ban, but India and China have been resistant.
The step is seen as key to driving patient choice in the NHS, although doctors have been resistant to such changes in the past.
But officials and AIDS experts contend that drug companies have been resistant to pleas that they alter their pricing policies or donate medicines to poor countries.
