>A commercial system can value surge capacity for peaks just like an online retailer does; the capacity to handle extra load means extra profit. Sure it can, b

>A commercial system can value surge capacity for peaks just like an online retailer does; the capacity to handle extra load means extra profit. Sure it can, but that's obviously not the reality and spinning up extra servers is not the same as adding extra physical rooms and beds. This analogy doesn't make any sense. >ncidentally the NHS has just identified an unintended reserve: a pool of nurses who have been sitting in nadministrative middle-management roles for years. They are being retrained and redeployed now, but it illustrates the lack of efficiency in the system. A private provider would not have 'wasted' nursing staff in those positions. You're right. A private company would just fire the nurses instead.