Recently Kenai Peninsula Borough Kenai seat Assembly candidates weighed-in on the current agreement Central Peninsula Hospital has with the Kenai Peninsula Borough.
Blaine Gilman…
Gilman: “Healthcare services should be controlled by the market and I think that should be done by private enterprise. I am a little concerned right now that we have a quasi governmental hospital which is competing to aggressively against the private physicians.”
Jake Thompson stated similar opinions…
Thompson: “Throughout history there has always been one thing that drives the cost of the service or product down and increase the quality of the service or product similarity and that has been competition. So I believe that the more competition we have, of course as people have to compete for your dollar the quality of service goes up and the price goes down.”
And Grayling Bassett…
Bassett: “I don’t have an inherit problem with that, now there was some questions about whether or not we have a system that is a monopoly and such and that there is not enough competition and my only response to that would be is we have other doctors offices around they each have their things that they specialize in.”
Those candidates will appear on a special District 2 Candidate Debate hosted by KSRM September 30 from 5 – 6 pm.
