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Which raises the separate point that they should probably not be businesses. A lot of our difficulties here go back to this privatized approach.

• cryptonector 5y ago
  You imply that running any enterprise (public or private) at near capacity is a bad thing, but in fact it's an economic necessity. You also imply that making these public enterprises would make it possible to run them at less than near capacity, but it's pretty clear from rationing in, e.g., the UK, that this is not so. The reason public health care is run at near capacity is the same as private healthcare: wasting resources is silly. Yes, I referred to profit, because profit is what "not wasting resources" translates to for the capitalist, but the real underlying moving force is economic and real regardless of ideology.
  • dragontamer 5y ago
    No. We largely imply that Denmark's hospitals are more efficient than US hospitals. In terms of cost, in terms of how much they can handle, in terms of number of COVID19 cases, etc. etc. Even if we cut down to highly-developed parts of the USA, such as New York vs Denmark specifically (rather than including all of the lesser-developed rural areas which puts the US at a disadvantage), we're clearly not as good at health care as Denmark.
    • cryptonector 5y ago
      Efficient or not, they must run at close to capacity. The comment I was replying to said "Depends on how full hospitals get", and, my response is that they're always close to full, and that is true regardless of whether they are public or private institutions. Please don't interject points that are not on-topic.