Directions: The critical reasoning question is based on a short argument, a set of statements, or a plan of action. For each question, select the best answer of the choices given and explain why the chosen answer is the right fit.
Statement: A private hospital is a hospital-owned and operated by an organisation other than the state and/or which provides care funded other than by the state, for example, funded by patients themselves, by insurers, or by foreign embassies.
Which of the following statements strengthen the fact of privatizing the hospitals?
1
Private hospitals take high fees for the surgeries and operations they perform.
2
Private hospitals are the best when it comes to proper maintenance, basic health facilities and choice of best doctors and surgeons.
3
Public hospitals are mostly free or charge a very meager amount for the treatment.
4
All of these
5
None of these