Wage floors prop up the pay of unskilled workers and make services expensive to supply.
More and more governments are using technologies to make services more efficient and customer-oriented.
This in turn could prevent lessons being learned and could make services less safe".
If we make services accessible to everyone, then they can avoid an early crisis".
They have more incentive to make services more efficient, since they typically keep some of the savings.
Southern introduced a reduced timetable on Monday, cutting 341 trains a day for a month, to make services more "resilient".
"The core of our programme is to expand the provider base to make services available in more places".
"We have no specific plan to make services the biggest business, but I wouldn't rule it out," Mr. Vestberg said.
President Obama rightly encouraged people to attack the stigma of mental illness, to recognize the hardships of people who have psychiatric illness and to make services available.
The president knows full well that faster privatisation could bring in foreign cash and technology, make services more efficient and reduce the government's debt.
Closer working between high street chemists and primary care, the thinking goes, will also make services much more responsive to individual patient's needs.
