One of the most interesting outcomes of blogging regularly is that I am often surprised about what is contentious, and what is not. Last week I discussed some evidence about the outcomes of patients being able to choose their GPs and received a range of different comments, most of which argued against giving the public the right to choose their GP.

One of the later comments – from someone on the side of the argument believing in public choice – was that many of the contributions seemed to come from 1911 rather than 2011.