You wouldn’t want to be a patient in a public health system that used diagnostic tools of the timeliness and quality used by some of the commentators in public policy debate about superannuation. Prescriptions and excisions recommended by supposed expert public policy practitioners or some journalists are often based on rather dodgy interpretations of dated data. If a similar approach was taken in the medical profession, then treatment plans would make use of x-rays taken two years ago of someone who may or may not be the patient in question. Operations undertaken would often involve attempting to take out an...