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This leads to situations a society has to be willing to accept without crying how much money is wasted - namely: You will have empty beds/hospital wings/hospita
by sgift 7y ago
This leads to situations a society has to be willing to accept without crying how much money is wasted - namely: You will have empty beds/hospital wings/hospitals most of the time. And people will sit around doing 'nothing' aka training for the day when they are needed.
I'm not convinced that the current political climate in either Europe or America is prepared to do that.
- occamrazor 7y ago> And people will sit around doing 'nothing' aka training for the day when they are needed. This is already an accurate description of most fire departments and militaries around the world. It shouldn’t be too hard to accept that a similar necessity of spare capacity occurs for healthcare.
- joking 7y agomaybe the military, but a typical fire department is orders of magnitude smaller than current health workers force. At least where I live however, flu outbreaks are tipically worked by making the extra workers double their turns an paying them extra hours, as they have the effect of increasing pacients, but also making workers ill. A bit more of capacity would be appreciated, but tell people that you are going to increase taxes and you are going to loose the elections no matter what.
- donavanm 7y agoYou are woefully underestimating the size of healthcare compares to emergency services. Neither emergency services nor the military are slack. They are both scaled for sustained operations; peak utilization is made up by volunteers or allied forces/departments. BLS says there are 334K at firefighters at $49k/yr. There are 240k NPs at $113k/ye, 3M RNs at $71k/yr, 728K licensed nurses at $46k/yr, 300K lab techs at $52k/yr, and 1.5M NAs at $28k/yr. Go ahead and double that coat when you include MDs and Admin.
- iovrthoughtthis 7y agoExactly. It’s like server analytics. Averages are less useful than percentiles.