“…This mirrors arrangements in the United States, where around three quarters of long-term care services are funded by Medicaid and other public sources, though delivered by largely private providers (Nisbet, 2017). Similar policy approaches are evident in other neoliberal regimes, such as Australia (Harley, Allen, & Sargent, 2007), Canada (Cunningham, Baines, & Charlesworth, 2014), and Japan (Broadbent, 2014). However, there is growing recognition of NPM's failure to deliver high quality care, not least given budgetary constraints in austere times (Nisbet, 2017).…”