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To state the obvious: when a state builds hospitals, it makes choices regarding how to build them and how to run them, and these choices represent the state’s vision of what a hospital must be like. We know in India what that vision looks like, state to state. But when others — private persons — build and run hospitals, they are motivated by profit, by their own constraints, and by their sensibilities about how a hospital must be built and run. These motivations are necessarily personal, necessarily individual, and therefore, necessarily undemocratic. The reality of what the private person’s hospital *is* will deviate from the state’s vision of what a hospital *should be*. This is the world as it should be. There is far too much of a tendency in India for the state to come in and tell hospitals how they should make operational decisions. Any coherent attempt at regulating hospitals should *begin* by dispensing with this tendency.
When you are writing laws you are testing words to find their utmost power. Like spells, they have to make things happen in the real world, and like spells, they only work if people believe in them. - Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1)
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Compared to many people in the world of science and engineering, I'm more interested in politics. And compared to most people in the world of politics and public policy, I tend to have the internal capabilities of doing maths and computer engineering. I'm equally comfortable in the world of science. I carry both the cultures — humanities and social science; and science and engineering.