How Centralised Should Our Health System Be?

“The Government says it will give localities more control over healthcare decisions. But how? ”

“New Zealand’s political reflex is that any problem can be resolved by further centralisation. Students will be officially banned from having cell phones at school from Term 2. The decision could have been left to individual schools. Each knows a lot more about local circumstances than the Minister of Education does (or I do). But the New Zealand way is a central directive.

On the other hand, sometimes centralisation is needed. Read more of the Pundit article written by Brian Easton here.