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Govt hospitals run by pvt firms: Does this public-private partnership truly benefit the public? (timesofindia.indiatimes.com)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by kirk781@discuss.tchncs.de to c/india@lemmy.ml

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It's a TOI plus article but it opens alright with BPC extension even if someone doesn't have a subscription.

If someone is unable to read despite it, please comment and I'll copy/paste the article on some text site.

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[–] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 month ago

Does this public-private partnership truly benefit the public?

It never does: whenever public services are delegated to private companies on the promise that they'll run them better for cheaper, it holds true for 2 or 3 years, and then the service degrades and becomes more expensive because the shareholders are greedy and they know they've captured the market.

Case in point: private highways in France that cost you a fortune, railway services in the UK that are always late or cancelled, healthcare in Finland which is even worse than the UK's despite being a Scandinavian country, and of course almost everything in the US.