Should the Public Sector Be Privatized

Many people have deep connection with the military, whether they served, or know someone who has served. After the service, veteran’s face a difficult transition back into civilian life, in the form of finding a job, healthcare, and general change in life. The benefits veterans receive before, during and after service is great, the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs or the V.A. for short, offer to be a veteran’s health insurance and healthcare. Of course, with this, there are rules and requirements to receive the V.A. benefits. Although for civilian healthcare, and insurance, there are also rules and requirements. So, the question is, should we privatize the V.A.? Quite a few people argue against it, while others are all for it, when I pro

Under the NPM umbrella, public sector has also been experiencing a shift to greater competition. The need to remove monopoly of service delivery and create contestability, through privatization, public tendering, and term contracts, justifies the adoption of competition principle (Dunleavy 1994; Hood 1991). Insisting to do bureaucratic provision on public services instead of contracting them out, knowing that private sector can deliver them better, it is believed would only force governments to lose comparative advantages on price, efficiency, and effectiveness (Dunleavy 1994. p.49). This way, governments are able to fulfil their responsibility in providing services and the financing, while simultaneously stimulate greater competition among providers under market dynamics. However, it is hard to instigate public service ethos in private parties. Therefore, the capacity of private entities to act consistently with the public interest is greatly questioned in this scenario. Are concerns such as public health and safety, environment sustainability, and social equity likely to be sacrificed underneath market mechanisms? When power is shared with organizations which have business objectives apart from government’s goals, the fundamental issue is how to detect which missions they are carrying out. Many public services being delivered by third parties are targeted for vulnerable sections of the community which can pose a higher risk of potential abuse, neglect, exploitation, and

The publicly funded National Health Service (NHS) is riddled with several challenges of the 21st century such as increasing population, changing health care needs, and financial crisis all of which threaten its sustainability. This raises a debate on whether to privatise the health care system or to find other solutions for mitigating its two leading problems: high debt and high deficit. Despite the claims that privatisation will improve efficiency and cut the cost of expenditure, privatisation may lead to less accountability, a focus on profit, and the erosion of NHS’s core principal of accessible health care. There is evidence that private funding initiative (PFI) of some NHS trusts has led to an increase in debt and not recovery.

According to Samuel Flam and William Keane authors of Public Schools: Private Enterprise, the definition of privatize is “...the process of turning over to private companies, programs, services and sometimes properties previously operated and/or owned by a government agency” (Flam & Keane, 1997, p.15). Privatizing of a school service is selling a service of the school district to a private company that runs, maintains and keeps up the service. The school district no longer oversees this service and virtually has no control over what they do but outsourcing this service would cut back on the economic spending of the school. A school service is something that students receive that is provided for them in school to enhance their well-being. In the school system, some examples of services that could be outsourced by a private company are school lunches, buses and janitor staff. According to Joe Argon author of Changing of the Guard, “for schools, transportation, food service, HVAC maintenance, computer servicing and printing continue to be the areas privatized most often” (Argon, 1997). The main issue behind this is finding out if privatizing school services does the school district more harm or good and what happens to the services and students after they have been privatized.

Privatizing the United States air traffic control operations may move closer to becoming a reality in 2017 – something most airline companies and other industry leaders have been pushing for a long time. Proponents of shifting away from government control introduced a bill last year that the incoming president has expressed a willingness to carefully consider. Rep. Bill Shuster (R), who helped draft the legislation, sees the long overdue shift to satellite-based air traffic management as the solution to lower costs for operators, while making air traffic safer and more efficient for all stakeholders. Whether global air travel is privately run or government controlled, call center voice recording activities will still be necessary to ensure control tower staff are fully trained and conversations are documented for

Describe from your perspective the appropriate roles of the private sector versus the federal, state, and local government (i.e., should private sector have more control, or government) with regard to the nation’s healthcare system.

Administrative scientists identified public administration as a tool or technique to use to produce the most efficient or effective result. The public interest is way of grabbing the attention of various group interest into society. In public admin privatization refers to transfer of any government function to the private sector-including governmental functions like revenue collection and law enforcement.

In order to understand the reasons behind privatisation of public services, it is essential to study the socio-political environment of the UK in the 1970’s. During this period of time, the UK was hit by the post-war crisis, which led the Tories British political party, also known as the Conservative Party, to lose dominance in the parliament. During this time, in the Ridley Report, the Thatcher shadow cabinet started suggesting about the need to break up the public sector and to disjoint unions. Initially, privatisation was subordinate to other policy themes. Nonetheless, during Margaret Thatcher’s governance starting in 1979, a certain degree of privatisation was put in place, notably regarding British Aerospace and Cable & Wireless (1). Nonetheless, during this period of time, the government’s aim was to privatise profitable entities, in order to increase revenues and therefore minimize borrowing from the public-sector.

Medibank Private is Australians Government owned company which was formed by the Labor party of Australia in June 1976. In October 1976, it starts operation under the Fraser government. It main purpose was to provide private medical and hospital insurance in all sectors to overcome the existing health insurance. The medibank private operator was the Health Insurance Commission (HIC) (Cavill, 2014) Medibank private is the larger health insurance in Australia with around 3.8 million members. In 2006, the Howard’s government intended to sale the medibank private company. This year, the Abbot government announced to privatise medibank to increase a better values and health

On a macro level, public administration and business management are similar in their overall functions. “At the broadest level, some organizational theorists contend that administration is administration whatever its setting, and that the problems of organizing people, leading them and supplying them with resources to do their jobs are always the same (Kettl, 2012, p. 38).” In his paper, “Public and Private Management: Are They Fundamentally Alike in All Unimportant Respects?,” Graham T. Allison explains that in comparing public and administration and business management, “it is possible to identify a set of general management functions (Allison, 2012, p. 4).” Regardless of their end goal, each administration must form strategies by setting goals, priorities and creating procedures. Public and private organizations must manage internal components by organizing staff, defining job responsibilities, hiring and managing personnel and creating budgets. Furthermore, they must manage external constituencies such as other agencies, the press and public (Allison, 2012, p. 5). His observations stem from Wallace Sayre’s famous words, “public and private management are fundamentally alike in all unimportant respects (DiIlulio, 1993).”

One current environment-development problem that could be framed as a Common Pool Resource dilemma is that of public health. Public health might not seem to meet the criteria of a common pool resource and thusly not be a problem, but in reality it is. While it’s true that anyone can be healthy, and one person being healthy doesn’t take away from the health of others, the point of contention in this case revolves around illness and its spread. This arises in the form of drug-resistant infections. In an ideal world, infections are treated properly and only the correct medications are used. However, in the real world, illnesses are improperly treated resulting in the creation of drug-resistant infections. The subsequent spread of these infections

Welcome everyone to the Governor’s Conference on Economic Development, today we shall discuss some interesting topics that should deal with our economy, and how it has developed and changed over time. To do this, we first need to discuss variables that might affect the equilibrium of supply and demand, as well as how that could be desired. Then, through using the concept of consumer and producer surplus, we will introduce the efficiency of markets, costs of taxation and some benefits of international trade. We will also discuss any side effects or consequences that might prevent market equilibrium, and the government’s policies that are used to remedy the inefficiencies in markets that are caused by externalities. Finally, we will finish with learning the difference between the efficiency of our tax systems, and the equality of a tax system.

During the last three decades, privatization has become increasingly popular in our government. This noticeable growth of privatization of public services has generated lots of discussions and debates among many scholars and left many of asking the questions.

The need for financial stringency in public organizations due to budgetary pressures and tax resistance coupled with the need to Managing /balancing budget deficits and provide quality services with a reduction in revenue has always been a major challenge for public organizations. The need to save money and at the same time provide quality services, had forced government agencies to privatize and contract out. Recently, there is greater involvement of the private and nonprofit sector in public service delivery. More and more government functions in service delivery are now carried out by private and nonprofit organization. This is one part attributed to the belief that private organizations can provide services more efficiently and effectively than government operated services. And the other is the fact that it is cost effective and takes a lesser time frame. These two process are indeed unarguably beneficial to the government and private sector as well as the beneficiaries, but they can be also very daunting accompanied with huge challenges especially when not executed in the rightful manner. The case of the crummy contractor by Rainey depicts such a complex situation , where the process of contracting out was poorly conducted. The case highlights the demand for privatization and contracting-out and most importantly some of the challenges of privatization and contracting in government organization. it goes on further to identify some crucial pointed to be

Globally the results of privatization have been detrimental. The problems have ranged from water quality, sewage spills, irreversible environmental effects, job cuts and lack of infrastructure investments. All in an effort to reduce operating costs and thus increase profits for shareholders.