Hospitals have effectively lobbied to control expansion for thirty years. Hospitals have to be at 65%+ to break even and at 85% to do well financially. ICU occupancy and critical care occupancy is a separate issue.
The cuts you reference are the trade with hospitals to get their vote but also to ration care like Brits do.
I know for a fact that in May at the height of Covid, Stanford Medical Center was at low occupancy. The issue with Covid was always occupancy rates for Critical Care / ICU type rooms. When the severe cases filled those there was no space for excess that needed isolation, ventilators etc.
Thanks KC Burke. That makes sense.
I’m thinking of Canada and how they have to travel hundreds
of miles to a hospital for certain surgeries.
Limiting access, has been the Left’s plan for some time, and
it’s not related to hospital’s desires.
It’s the thought that if you can’t get in easy, you’ll take
a pass, perhaps die, and keep the overall outlay down.