On Thu, 23 May 2013, Aryan Ameri <info@ameri.me> wrote:
I know this was meant to disparage my comments, but you really actually hit the nail on the head. I would LOVE for some high-rise apartments to be built at the location of the Women's hospital (Children's is fine as well, but a bit further out, the Women's would be great).
Although most people don't realise until it's too late there are significant benefits in living and working near a hospital. Having a major hospital in a central location for every major urban area is a good planning idea.
As far as I'm concerned, the government has no business building and operating anything that a private business could profitably do, and hospitals fall right into that category. Not only would that high-rise apartment be great, it would also fix our broken health care system!
That's an extreme libertarian idea. A more sensible approach is to start by having the government run all natural monopolies. When a private business has no competition then the result is always bad for the consumer. So we start by having the government run all roads, water supply, sewer systems, electricity supply, and phone lines. Then we need to have the government operate projects which involve large-scale investment for the public benefit such as medical research. If all medical research was directly run by government agencies then we'd get a lot more research into unprofitable but important issues such as the increasing number of diseases that are resistant to all anti-biotics. By many measures the most broken health-care system in the world is in the US, it's also the most privatised. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/