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Originally Posted by puffnstuff
I dont know either but AHS has a Minister in charge of it so I look at them as part of the govt.
No matter how much ds wants to make it seem like they arent.
I guess it opens the question of why are there private companies operating in the public system and why would govt money subsidize their capital spending? When the govt already has spent money on AHS facilities.
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I coming from the idea of is this a fair comparison of the cost of services.
Like the government can invest in expanding public capacity or it can pay a 3rd party to do the surgery.
In that calculation the comparisons should be the cost of adding the capacity AND the cost of the surgery vs the contract cost of the private sector. I have no idea from reading the article if the comparison they are making is reasonable or not.
In general I’d rather invest in permanent capacity