Why not some Public Hospitals?

The author has well argued with all logics for more public hospitals and the need for such hospitals is paramount to save  the hapless public from merciless loot and fleecing resorted to jointly by the Corporates and insurance companies. Ethics have been given a go bye and cash flows are the yardsticks to measure the success of insurance companies and the corporate hospitals. Doctors with conscience have no place in these hospitals which are managed amd marketed by the MBAs whose only philosophy is to maximise profit by all means. Greed instead of empathy and sympathy is the driving force behind these hospitals and insurance companies whose motto is only to make hay while the sun shines  are providing the needed support..   Patients coming to these hospitals which are spread to nook and corner are subjected to all possible tests whether required or not and  they have been fully exploited to part with their fortune to save their lives or to maintain a good health. Deaths in these hospitals after parting with the money are very common as per reports  without giving any convincing cause for death. In the absence of any meaningful and efective  regulator  for and monitoring of these hospitals and insurers, the people particularly the middle class, are taken for a ride. The Government can very well go in for state of the art technology supported hospitals and use the subsidy well as rightly argued by the author. At least some such hospitals will ensure to bring in some competition to these corporate hospitals and definitly add some checks and balances in the proper diagnosis of diseases,   use of equipments,tools and  subsequent treatments.Time Government gives a serious thought to start some public hospitals with the aid of some philothropists, social scientists and donations from Corpoartes as part of their Corporate social Responsibility. The Government can think of some tax concesions and incentives for such ventures.  Public would definitely welcome and provide all support to the Government.   

Dr.T.V.Gopalakrishnan

 ( This comment is given in Business Standard against the article  Dont subsidise better build).