As with all privatization schemes, the basic argument is that private competition and choice will offer veterans better, more efficient care.
They also contend that government backing crowds out private competition.
We can take heart, however, in the kernel of agreement about the value of private competition.
The system faces private competition, however, especially from flexible minibus services.
Is this an example of public support but private competition between siblings?
Mr. Gore opposes the plan, which calls for introducing more private competition into the Medicare system.
"It's interesting to note that for ISAs, where there's private competition, NS&I's market share is almost zero".
The act called for the "unbundling" of generation from transmission and distribution, which was to be opened to private competition.
So between suppressing private competition (David Cameron) and demanding more private competition (Caroline Flint) – though again, oddly, the normal party responses are here reversed – how are excessive energy price increases to be curbed?
So what's to be done about encouraging private competition to the near-monopoly now held by government?
