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Flexicurity, the Danish model and the welfare state | 26 comments (26 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: Flexicurity, the Danish model and the welfare (4.00 / 3)

The second and third. The actual medical staff isn't being outsourced, and the hospitals aren't being sold off, but damn near everything else is being outsourced, and the medical staff is jumping ship to the new (or expanded) private hospitals because the public wages can't keep up. The problem in Denmark isn't a shortage of buildings, it's a shortage of qualified doctors (because of another irresponsible government policy - namely cutting costs in medical education by not admitting as many medical students...).

- Jake

Ceterum censeo Chicago esse delendam

by JakeS (JangoSierra 'at' gmail 'dot' com) on Mon Jul 21st, 2008 at 06:50:34 PM EST
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Re: Flexicurity, the Danish model and the welfare (4.00 / 2)

JakeS: because the public wages can't keep up. The problem in Denmark isn't a shortage of buildings, it's a shortage of qualified doctors (because of another irresponsible government policy - namely cutting costs in medical education by not admitting as many medical students...).

Are you saying that if there were more medical students graduating, there would be more doctors working, which would reduce doctor's incomes in the private sector, therefore allowing medical wages in the public sector to compete better against those in the private?

... all progress depends on the unreasonable mensch.
(apologies to G.B. Shaw)

by marco (cowannar at gmail punkt com) on Mon Jul 21st, 2008 at 07:11:19 PM EST
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Re: Flexicurity, the Danish model and the welfare (none / 0)

Yes and no... If more doctors graduated, there might be enough doctors to improve quality in the public sector. Private sector wages might still be higher, but the brain drain out of the public sector would have less serious consequences in terms of service quality and stability.

- Jake

Ceterum censeo Chicago esse delendam

by JakeS (JangoSierra 'at' gmail 'dot' com) on Tue Jul 22nd, 2008 at 09:49:09 AM EST
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Re: Flexicurity, the Danish model and the welfare (4.00 / 3)

It's worth adding that private competition in health services tends to cause problems because they find ways to engage in cream-skimming.

by Metatone (metatone [a|t] gmail (dot) com) on Tue Jul 22nd, 2008 at 10:57:19 AM EST
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Re: Flexicurity, the Danish model and the welfare (none / 1)

There is a similar limiting of the number of medical students in France, and the reason is not only to cut education costs, but also to reduce the supply of medical knowledge, so as to ensure its high price...

Auferre, trucidare, rapere, falsis nominibus imperium; atque, ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant.

by linca (antonin POINT lucas AROBASE gmail.com) on Tue Jul 22nd, 2008 at 04:42:52 AM EST
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