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Some people think that the government should invest in developing medical technologies more than in improving public transportation. However, in my opinion, I belive that the government should invest more money in public transportation systems in our cities. One reason is that transportation problems in the cities are more urgent than medical technologies, and the another reason is that medical technologies can be developed properly by private companies and funds, instead of the government.
First of all, many experts recently pointed out that public transportation problems are the most urgent problems in our cities. To be specific, rapid increase of urban population for the last couple of decades caused serious shotage of public transportation in the cities. According to a recent study conducted by Seoul National University, the population of Seoul has increased by 70 percent during the last 30 years. however, public transportation capacity has increase only 15 percent during the same period. This means that the present public transportation system of the city can not accommodate the pressent population, and can not properly deal with the transportation problem of the city. Therefore, the same study pointed out that the most serious and urgent problem should be dealt with now is the public transportation problem. This is the reason that the government should invest in enhancement of the public transportation, ranther than other problems.
In addition, even though developing medical technologies is also an important issue in our society, I think that the government don't have to invest a lot of money in development of medical technologies. This is because most of medical technologies can be developed and improved by private companies and funds. For instance, cures for most of fatal disease such as AIDS and cancers were developed by private sectors, not by the government. Private sectors such as pharmaceutical companies, hospital, scienties and doctors who want to cure patients and make profits are always willing to develop and discover new technologies and cures. This is way they can do this better than the government does.
In this regard, I belive that the government should give more efforts to improve the existing public transportation system, rather than to invest in new medical cures, because the public transportation problem is more urgent and the privatie sector can develope medical technologies better than the government does. |