Maybe, he thought out loud, we need a piece of technology that doesn't exist to solve the problem of choosing a health plan.

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The fact that his committee was meeting in the Senedd, taking evidence from AMs, was a symbol, he thought out loud, of what co-operation could achieve for the Welsh economy, "of what is possible".

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More often than not, they have a prepared line to take, and fear thinking out loud for fear of how an original thought might affect those dreaded stakeholders, not least shareholders.

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