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Private Equity has been getting in to veterinary care in a huge way, and many vet offices are cutting back on services and staffing significantly. It's very eas

• tcbawo 3y ago
  When you have for-profit healthcare, it’s not surprising that the system optimizes for short term profits over the well-being of healthcare workers or patients. People are willing to pay almost anything to stay alive and/or healthy. Healthcare workers will be paid (and otherwise treated) just well enough that they don’t leave. Sadly, the incentives are awful for people who get into healthcare for altruistic reasons.
  • pauldenton 3y ago
    When you have state run healthcare there are a lot of wait lists. You can have an excess supply and ration by price or a modest supply and ration by waiting
    • deprecative 3y ago
      When you have private for-profit healthcare you get a lot of wait lists. They come in the forms of "I can't afford that" and "I can still walk on that leg, I don't need to spend our retirement."
    • tcbawo 3y ago
      Not all not-for-profit institutions are government run. Supposedly, there are more non-profit hospitals than for-profit hospitals. Although I am not in the industry, the cynical part of me suspects that some of these exist to shelter liability from profit centers.