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The difficult thing for the USA is that we treat healthcare as a profit center. This leads to focusing on efficiencies instead of extra capacity. You don't want
by abirch 3y ago
The difficult thing for the USA is that we treat healthcare as a profit center. This leads to focusing on efficiencies instead of extra capacity. You don't want extra beds, unless you have a pandemic. There aren't hospital beds as a services.
- disgruntledphd2 3y agoIf you have government funded healthcare, you only want enough capacity for average needs because otherwise you're wasting taxpayer money.
- scarface_74 3y agoNow use that same argument about military spending…
- Izkata 3y agoExcept we actually did make that extra capacity in several parts of the country in March 2020, those extra beds went almost entirely unused, were quietly disassembled in April 2020, and everyone forgot they existed.