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See also: hospitals running at close full capacity in a normal year[1], and then a pandemic comes along. [1]: https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/

• bluGill 6y ago
  Perhaps, but health care is so heavily managed nobody can call it a market. Most communities have a limit on how many hospital beds that are allowed which means that there isn't even an opportunity to do much better.
  • jandrese 6y ago
    That's kind of the core of the problem with healthcare in the US. We treat it like a market where you can't see the prices and where customer are forced to buy the product or die. Then we wonder why it's so expensive.
    • renewiltord 6y ago
      Perhaps if we call everyone in healthcare heroes and let them control the supply of healthcare things will get better.
      • aqme28 6y ago
        It seems more likely we'll call them heroes while laying them off.
        • renewiltord 6y ago
          So long as we can then claim there aren't enough heroes and it would take two decades to train more, I'm happy. It's the only possible thing we could try.