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One thing to also consider is that a lot of the difficulty/friction is due to regulations. There are probably all sorts of sane, reasonable, safe and exotic sol
by zo1 5y ago
One thing to also consider is that a lot of the difficulty/friction is due to regulations. There are probably all sorts of sane, reasonable, safe and exotic solutions to this problem, just like there is for supplies during disasters, but it's hampered by reactionary regulations. E.g. price-gauging laws, or in this case, "certification" for doctors and nurses.
- eru 5y agoYes. I deliberately tried not to touch on this too much, and wanted to just concentrate on the price-gauging laws. Some regulations are useful, some are insane. But going with a fine toothed comb over which is which would be too much for a short comment. The core argument that I was addressing was that somehow the private sector wouldn't be able to provide peak capacity, ergo the government would by default do a better job. Your further example of dropping the certification requirements to something sensible, perhaps at the simplest even by just allowing nurses to do more of what only doctors are allowed to do at the moment, would apply about equally well in a government hospital as in a privately run one. Similar actually for how to organise stand-by/peak duty, even down to how you pay your personnel. Main difference is that I would assume that privately run outfits would (have to) pass on the extra cost at peak into 'gauged' prices, and governments would just make the tax payer swallow the pill. (Or more likely, would also just accept doing a bad job and having a bad system in place. Especially if they ban the competition.)