yes. i very much agree it’s best to actually design these things rather than have weird rivalries emerge along unintended dimensions. 1/

it’s just that when we think about how to arrange the public sector, we should be thinking about competition as a potentially useful tool. it’s not the special province of the private sector! 2/

(and we want to think of hybrid designs where public and private sector entities are placed intentionally in competition. this is much of the virtue of “public options”.) /fin