by Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad, http://test.chedet.com
".....If it is going to give the same service to civil servants and pensioners the Government will have to pay out the same amount of money after privatisation. How does the Government gain? Besides if the poor are going to be charged the same low fees and charges how does Sime Darby make money?
Or will the Government continue to subsidise an ever growing bill for treatment of the poor? If so why is there a need to privatise? How does Sime Darby, a business entity make money when 80 per cent of the patients are poor?
Some of the major surgeries performed there are so costly that the IJN lost money on them. Will Sime Darby shoulder these losses?
There are far too many questions about this privatisation which need to be answered. Some I think cannot be answered.
I seldom oppose privatisation but this is one instant when I feel privatisation is the wrong thing to do. Leave this institution as it is. It is our pride and it is doing a good job as it is.
The Barisan Nasional Government is not too popular today. Why do something that may give the opposition another issue to belabour the Government...." Read more
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