If the free market saw a pent up demand like this, there would be a new hospital opening every 6 months.
It is one of the reasons Canadians routinely flocked to the USA for years for care, particularly medical imaging, where getting an MRI or CT scan could take six months.
I understand they had to make an accommodation to allow private medical imaging suites to open up and make money off of imaging because people were dying due to late diagnosis.
That must have been a tough pill to swallow for the Leftists up there. We aren’t far behind.
I read a great book a while back called “The Arsenal of Democracy: FDR, Detroit, and an Epic Quest to Arm an America at War” and it illustrated the power of capitalism to provide goods and services, when individuals are allowed to make profits.
The Roosevelt Administration (with people like the execrable Harold Ickes...yes, the father of the Harold Ickes WE know as an example) didn’t want people to make money manufacturing arms leading up the war we knew was coming.
The manufacturing goals they knew they were going to have to meet were so stratospheric that they agreed they were impossible.
But when they put William Knudsen (a disciple of Henry Ford) in charge, he convinced them it could be done if we unleashed the power of capitalism, and Roosevelt reluctantly agreed against the wishes of people like Harold Ickes.
And look what happened. They exceeded those unreachable goals because they allowed people to make money.
Same with medical imaging centers. Sigh. As it stands now, we are going in the same direction as Canada and Britain.