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>Some of the day’s dilemmas revealed vulnerabilities that are hardwired into the American system. Some private hospitals, for instance, turned away Clade X pati
by mberger 8y ago
>Some of the day’s dilemmas revealed vulnerabilities that are hardwired into the American system. Some private hospitals, for instance, turned away Clade X patients in order to protect their shareholders. (By the end of the simulation, American health care had been forcibly nationalized.)
GL HF with that. What really would have happened is that the government does what it always does: throw money at the problem. Every hospital gets x dollars to prepare or gets x dollars per confirmed diagnosis. Change like that never happens during a crisis, always after.
- mullen 8y agoHistory does not back up that statement. During the Civil War, WWI and WWII certain parts of the economy were nationalized. It would be safe to expect that in a sever pan-epidemic that the health care system would be nationalized.
- mberger 8y agoI was thinking of the 2008 financial crises. Rather than nationalize banks there was a bailout. In 911 there was no nationalization of airports or airlines just more money to set up security theatre. I suppose it could be argued that the DHS personnel are a nationalized rent a cop operation but that sems like its something new not something appropriated
- mullen 8y agoAirport security was nationalized after 9/11. During the 2008 financial crises, the government did not nationalize the banks but it did "nationalize" how some of the banks did fail. Banks that could/would survive, were told to absorb banks that could not/would not survive with money that the government provided and dictated how much it would be paid back. Technically, not nationalization but pretty close.
- Fomite 8y agoLast I checked, there was a major dispute between the hospitals that took Ebola patients and the government as to how much X needed to be.