You must have missed the part that I said that there being legal allowances for the system to have turned out how it is now does not mean that it was set up lik

You must have missed the part that I said that there being legal allowances for the system to have turned out how it is now does not mean that it was set up like that. Solely the strong presence of the state and the state rendering sufficient number of services can keep things under control in an actual mixed landscape through the pressure of pricing and availability. Which was the case in most jurisdictions. Privatization in such systems starts when the state supplied services are crippled by 'reformers'. Even in wholly public systems, first allowing 'some' private medicine then strangling the public one to channel the activity to private ones and then justify privatizing everything is the go-to tactic.