Ireland is another example. Healthcare services have €20B a year budget for 5M population. It's rife with non performance, wrong diagnosis and being borderline

Ireland is another example. Healthcare services have €20B a year budget for 5M population. It's rife with non performance, wrong diagnosis and being borderline ineffective. Element of running a welfare state is how far you take it or make it restrictive so capitalism can thrive. Many doctors run private practice together with their lucrative government jobs. UK on similar level seems lost between running state run programs vs letting private sector thrive. Private sector is certainly not an answer to education and health. But government ones need some private sector like spirit, incentives and sticks. Many of the medical staff don't perform because these are jobs for life with little to no long term effects on their career.