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Is that lack of scalability in hospital services and education completely inevitable due to the constraints of reality or is it mostly artificial? For example,

Is that lack of scalability in hospital services and education completely inevitable due to the constraints of reality or is it mostly artificial? For example, would completely uncapping medical residencies increase the supply of doctors enough to significantly reduce the rate at which medical costs increase?

pas 3y ago
Hospital costs would benefit from some transparency/breakdown, but for medicine in general it's the increased complexity, more scans, more things to test for. But these tests are not cheap (nor fast enough). Manual labor is still required (to draw blood, to ship the vials, to put it into the test machine, to collect the results, upload it, review it, consult with the patient. Then there's a lot more old people with a lot of complicated cases, which require a lot of person-hours. And we still don't really have turnkey solutions. Sure, we have nice vaccines, but they are not 99.99%, there still are complications, there still are ridiculous inefficiencies (why do we still don't have combined yearly multivalent boosters for influenza+covid+others)? Education also suffers from this overcomplication, but it's mostly because of credentialism. It's perfectly possible to watch lectures at home, complete coursework at home, and then go to some place fill out a test, and then do oral and practical exams. Grading can standardized (high-school exam is already done this way here in Hungary, there's a PDF booklet issued to teachers conducting the exam; and profs and TAs already do the same basically verbally).