“In my advocacy around Government 2.0, I’ve been focused on the idea that government should act like a platform provider rather than a complete solution provider. That is, government should lay down rules of the road, create core functionality that others can build on, and then let the private sector compete to flesh out the offerings.
You’d never think it from the right-wing media hysteria around the administration’s health care initiatives, but some of the best thinking about minimal government intervention is happening right now in healthcare. I met yesterday morning with Dr. David Blumenthal, the National Coordinator for healthcare policy, and I was struck by how he is focused on the idea of the least possible government intervention in the market. “We have to do as little as we have to do in order to have a strong probability to succeed,” he told me.”
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Tim O’Reilly, O’Reilly Radar, 11 March 2010
