The last bastion of Socialism

In the Kitchen Dr De'Arth is bemoaning the central planning and micromanagement in the NHS. Unfortunately this is how the NHS is supposed to work. It is supposed to have ministers fretting over the tiniest details, it was set up in order to have ministers fretting over the tiniest details.

That was what they thought would be best, get a sufficiently smart person with a sufficiently good plan and, they reasoned, that the result would have to be better than the messy products that had evolved to solve the problems before. So industry was planned from the centre, architects made 'machines for living in', and the NHS where born and grew to fruition.

This experiment has been running for more than haft a century and the results are pretty conclusive. The messy products of evolution spanked the planners across their own drawing boards.

Central planning of industry turned into the 'managed decline' of industry. The 'machines for living in' crushed their inhabitants. The NHS manages to take first world levels of funding and turn it into developing world levels of service despite the best efforts of the staff, which if they had been in the private sector would be referred to as grossly exploited. So now the state, rightly, does not take an actively try and direct the way that business are run, and the economy is no longer in decline. Architects are less likely to declare 'Never again' and you get more buildings that actually perform their function. Perhaps one day we will let the power of evolution into healthcare as well with a multi-payer/multi-provider system like those on the continent.