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民建聯在東莞搞路向營，高官即日來回親自出席打氣兼講話，大開眼界。
特首不可以有政黨背景，連政黨出身的高官，都要上任後跟黨劃清界線。如今特首接二連三對單一政黨眉來眼去，逗得人家開心不已，頻頻放軟聲氣，密密大開綠 燈，親密程度，更甚於黨員。看來特首不可以有政黨背景這條規矩應該早日廢除，而特首厚此薄彼之舉，其實是為政黨能夠執政鋪路。
醫管局在2006╱07年度預計可擺脫赤字，好消息之同時，計劃增加醫院收費。主席不愧為商界出身，深明好消息出貨的道理。
急症由一百加到百五至二百，住院由一百加至五百，其餘林林沈沈，逐樣計數。會計師的市儈算死草，開始發功。
以醫管局2005年年報，收費約十四億，計入那五億幾的減免收費，醫管局一年可以收病人近二十億。如果照主席提議，收費增加一倍至四倍，未計減免，隨時 收五十億；就算預四分一是安全網的減免，都有四十億落袋。萬一真如主席所願，2005╱06年度可能是醫管局最後一年見赤字。
還有，六十七億的遞延收益，亦可以化成減赤法寶。當中的四十五億購屋貸款利息津貼，據報載，由於員工買樓人數漸少，可以撥五億作為經常開支。
如果資金可以左撥右撥，而最終數目是由精算師計算，假設醫管局員工愈來愈少，這個水塘大有本事再次放水，救急扶危。
行運醫生醫病尾，政府開始有盈餘，毋須左減右減，又有會計師主席幫手睇緊盤數，新任鬼佬行政總裁只要沒有遇上疫症大災難，保證可以全身而退返回澳洲老家。
胡主席，再計計是否有員工要買樓，多用那四十幾億儲備補貼，總好過瘋狂加費。
1 comment:
Cheuk,
What on earth are you talking about? The reason why the 06/07's deficit can be eliminated is because Government has generously agreed on behalf of the tax payer to inject an extra fund of 600M into the HA's bank account. It is certainly not because, for instance, its new CEO has streamlined the whole organization to achieve an effective operation or hell, simply reduce the wastage by 600M. Therefore, I fail to see this is a good news.
Any public organization, as far as I can see, is a "sting" operation, which is legal unfortunately. Take it to the extreme, all the top managers are basically no different from cons who are trying to con the tax payer.
Let us examine what would a private company do in the situation of deficit. Primarily, there are four ways, among others, to deal with the situation including (i) shut down the part which is loosing money (ii) streamline the staff/operation to achieve better effectiveness (iii) increase the price and (iv) ask the shareholder to inject more money into the company. From my experience, (i) and (ii) require a lot genuine work but are commonly used to restore the vitality of the company with good result. (iii) would usually mean loosing customer and impassable under most circumstances. (iv) would probably end up with top managers kicking tin can down the road.
Now let us turn to what HA has done so far. Shutting down the hospital or even some seems to be out of the question under the current political climate. From the report of the media, very little has been done from (ii)if not at all. (iii) is the easiest and definitely a go ahead. HA's customer can take it or leave it. It wouldn't do much harm to HA's top managers and they are not afraid of loosing customer. (iv) has already made a dent in the tax payer wallet.
By the foregoing simple analysis, it is utterly clear that HA has taken the easy way out in the issue of deficit which is arising out of and in connection with its bad management. (iii) and (iv) are simply ways to con the tax payer. Don't you think you should say something like the CEO should have said: while maintaining similar level of service cut the overhead by 20% then we'll talk about price hike and placing of new shares?
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