The most important ‘referendum’ was the general election, by which we conferred on a select group of individuals the responsibility and honour of administering the affairs of state, the ‘permanent government’, and co-opting experts, while keeping the common good foremost.

It is becoming increasingly obvious in the inevitable unfolding crisis and clearly unsustainable situation in what we liberally, generously and erroneously call the ‘private health insurance’ and ‘private healthcare’ markets, that these were, and are, unhealthy and distorted markets.