> I honestly feel like hospitals (and other similar facilities) need to be designed to encourage this. I agree. But hospitals are also ridiculously expensive o

> I honestly feel like hospitals (and other similar facilities) need to be designed to encourage this. I agree. But hospitals are also ridiculously expensive on a per-sq-foot basis. Outside of very high-end hospitals that can try to make some of that money back from cash patients and very well insured patients, most hospitals simply don't carry the funds for that, even if they wanted to. Discussions about healthcare are always rich in "hospitals need" or "hospitals should," and people never stop and ask "why don't they?" The answer is usually "because we don't pay for it." Most of our healthcare dollars don't end up in the hands of hospitals or doctors, though a good chunk go through the hospitals. Most dollars ultimately end up with insurers, device manufacturers, or pharmaceutical companies. What money does go to the hospitals, doesn't go towards the things people say they want. Unsurprisingly, as with every entrepreneurial discussion on HN, there's a difference between what customers say they want and what they're willing to pay for.