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| quote: | Originally posted by Kinezi
There are lot of countries where Government and Private hospitals runs side by side.. What happens generally in the long run is private hospitles become a symbol of elite, with top notch facility and expensive treatments.. where as government hospitles becomes poor mans hospitals with very low cost for the same treatment but poor facilities and hygine and stuff..
So why not make all govt hospitals private? Its not possible.. medical healthcare business requires huge investments, maintainance costs and sheer amount of skilled labour you need to run a hospital .. the technology too keeps changing at very fast pace and you need keep updating the equipments and facilities.. costs are very high in running a hospital.. unless govt subsidises it, there is no way to bring costs down.. (like competition and stuff mentioned earlier).. running a hospital is not like running a low cost airlner or something.. |
In Sweden we have a system where (most) major hospitals are out on contract, so the company offering the best way to run it (cheapest and best quality) gets to run it. That way everyone gets decent healthcare and competition makes sure the system doesn't get to clogged or expensive.
We also have a system in Stockholm where any private clinic can open up and get a set amount of funds from the local government for every health check up, and other minor things that small clinics do. That way the accessabilty has increased a lot, quality improved, but still everyone will afford it (as it would be equally as expensive as a government run clinic, which btw is not entirely free in Sweden to avoid missusing of the system).
It's a pretty good system imo, and it's going to expand greatly over the next few years (just 10 years ago pretty much all hospitals was run by the government).
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