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This differentiation between weird license fees and safety regulations makes sense.
But the privatised hospitals etc is extremely problematic, as they underpay their stuff regularily, causing extreme situations.
I guess that a free market has advantages over slow and established monopoles. But the companies will still exploit as much as possible, if not every single thing is regulated.
Example environment and labor laws. If you have exact laws for every known process, they will try to find loopholes to be cheaper, because there is only profit, no moral.