The community is happy to pay for top quality medical support by the RFDS. Funds invested in a fleet of NEW B200's [Proline21]. I think that the point that is missed here is that the same number of pilots/maintainers/support staff probably exist no matter who the actual operator is. "Ownership" of the operation is only one ingredient.
A career at RFDS is much more stable than some of the other 'pretenders' out there.