(Deputy Prime Minister) Nick Clegg: UK a 'more liberal nation' by 2015

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Machina said:

NoddyHolder said:

SamuelRSmith said:

Because there are no private sector alternatives to David Cameron's job. The wage for a public sector worker working for, say the Treasury, is high because they need to compete with the wages offered by the financial institutions. Those jobs require a similar skill set and education, so the Treasury needs to make it worthwhile for the people to choose working for them over working for, say, Goldman Sachs, or Barclays Investment.

The same goes for high level public sector workers across the board. The NHS is competing with Bupa for health care specialists, but also just for managerial jobs in general with the private sector.

simple solution, ban private healthcare. (education too)

You want to ban private health care because specialist and managerial staff in the NHS are paid too much?

It does seem silly... specialists and managerial staff in NHS are likely paid more to put up with NHS not to compare vs competing groups.

I mean, fun story here... in the US they blame private schools for stealing all the good teachers and they we need to pay more to keep good teachers in public schools. 

Fun fact most people don't know?   Private School teachers get paid less.  Private schools get all the good teachers, not because of the rich elite pooring piles of money into the schools... but because teachers there actually get to teach.   You spend a lot less time with buocratic red tape and forms... and a lot more time.... teaching.