There he says, one, that the shift from the concept of «the
State's role as providers of equal opportunities to every citizen» to that of providing education, health and
other social services «to those who can afford to pay» is a U-turn in public policy which «has been made surreptitiously by administrative action without public discussion and
legislative sanction»; two, that the total commercialization of social sectors is «alien even to free market societies»; and three, that «the ready acceptance of self - financing concept in social sectors alien even to free - market societies is the end result of gradual disenchantment with the Kerala
Model of Development», which has been emphasizing the social dimension rather than the economic, but that it is quite false to present the situation as calling
for a choice between social development and economic growth.
The American
Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) made headlines last week after Wisconsin Republicans introduced a virtually word -
for - word copy of the ALEC «
model» Right to Work Act, following on the heels of Michigan and
other states that have taken up the ALEC - inspired anti-union measures in recent years.