Sunday, October 30, 2005

** What are P3s?? **

P3's...what are they exactly?

The first P stands for Public, the second for private, and the third for partnership, which is bundled together to create a very a co-operative working group of people that often work towards a good change in infrastructure projects. These changes are made based on the expertise of each partner: the public and private.

Typically, a private sector forms its own company designed to build and maintain the condition of what is built for the public. if this is considered, then I believe that if I were to consider the Canadian example of hospital building in Ottawa, which is constructed by a private developer, to be not ideal. Hospitals are for the benefit of the citizens, and if the private developer of that hospital were to act as landlord, then providing housekeeping and other non medical services wouldn’t allow for the hospital to contribute to every aspect. The hospital would only have to provides medical services
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**key facts:**
**In a public private partnership, the public sector maintains an overseeing, managing role.
**In a private parternership, the private sector is closely involved in delivering the specific service or project.

Public-Private Partnerships are generally categorized based on the extent of involvement on a private or public level.

In regards to health care and hospitals: the arrangements are not cheaper and in almost every case the costs from beginning to end are higher than if the government had funded the project. Building roads and setting up pay-tolls to help the quality of the roads remain places the people who use the roads in an ackward situation.
Citizens will end up paying for the upkeep of roads.


--SaraH*

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