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MR RUDD launched a health plan, focused on public hospitals. Then he demanded that the owners of those hospitals, the states, all sign up. Some were keen, some relieved, some doubtful. One in particular was very negative.
Mr Brumby reckoned Victoria’s system led the way and suggested a different model. A few states joined in, chanting “more money.” Others joined Mr Rudd to paint Mr Brumby as a potential wrecker of policy unity. Mr Rudd didn’t want to take over public hospitals nationwide, but he wanted to put the Commonwealth in the driver’s seat.
Now imagine you ran a loose but supposedly cooperative enterprise. Say a company with factories in different places that were used to doing things differently. Imagine everyone agreed that things needed to be improved, but there was no consensus as to how. You, the overall manager, proposed a model, but another factory, which had been doing okay, asserted that its model was better.
The logical thing would be to trial your model in those factories that were ready for it, and let the factory with its own model do things its way. Then, in a few years time, you could compare performance...
