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> The US healthcare system is notably fragile, not formidable. Citation needed. I've seen numbers that suggest the US has 2.5x ICU beds per capita compared to
by m0zg 7y ago
> The US healthcare system is notably fragile, not formidable.
Citation needed. I've seen numbers that suggest the US has 2.5x ICU beds per capita compared to European average. It also costs 3.6 _trillion_ dollars a year. Surely at least some of this money contributes to it being less "fragile"?
- DanBC 7y agoThere are claims that the US has started doubling up ventilator use. https://twitter.com/drchethansathya/status/1240728769192693768 https://twitter.com/drchethansathya/status/12407287691926937...
- dragonwriter 7y ago> I've seen numbers that suggest the US has 2.5x ICU beds per capita compared to European average. The number per capita isn't the key thing, the number in excess of normal use available per capita is. If the US has and uses more because it is worse at keeping it's population off ventilators normally, that doesn't help. > It also costs 3.6 _trillion_ dollars a year. Surely at least some of this money contributes to it being less "fragile"? No, the cost is directly a consequence of the main source of the fragility, a financing structure that, among other inefficiencies, promotes micro-optimizations around short-run, single-actor financial efficiency in a system with multiple no cooperating actors rather than systemic efficiency where it promotes any kind of optimization at all.