Horst Herb wrote:
It failed as expected and predicted, and the vast sums of taxpayers money
disappeared with a fraction of the benefit that could have been achieved by
investing in public broadband infrastructure that could have been leased at
*equitable terms* to all competitors.
Horst,
The basic problem you've touched on is that this government doesn't
believe in public infrastructure.
If the 'market' with a little help, can't fix it, it won't be fixed by
massive injections of money into 'public infrastructure' of any kind.
The basic reason why HealthConnect has become a 'standards framework',
not a health communication system, is that the current government can't
bring itself to invest large sums ['many billions of dollars'] in a
public infrastructure venture.
$1 billion re broadband doesn't really compare, and, anyway, the
government has a schizophrenic view of Telstra, as being not public,
despite the government being the majority shareholder, and likely to
remain so for quite some time, I suspect.
The last examples of big new public infrastructure investment I can
think of was the Alice Springs to Darwin railway and our recent defence
expenditures. Part of the rationale for this railway was 'northern
defence' anyway.
Most of our public health infrastructure is run at state level, with
funding from the Federal government inputted via the Commonwealth-State
funding agreement arrangements.
In addition, the Federal government pays the public's cost of
consultations with private doctors through Medicare but this 'health
infrastructure' is held in private hands, like yours Horst.
Greg
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Canterbury Division of General Practice
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