I'm sorry, is this responsive to my post?
It makes sense to me that if people don't need to be in the hospital for a day before surgery, they shouldn't be there. If they're not in a fit condition before surgery, that should be determined by an outpatient checkup, not after admission and scheduling for surgery.
These are simple management issues that are the policy of any system with a concern for effective use of resources.
Pretty much we do that here, first go to your family doc for clearance, then over to the hosp on surgery day. Seems reasonable to me.
OTOH...we can, with infinite money, keep preemies alive for a long time. Also we can prolong dying for months in terminal older folk.
Sooner or later we're going to have to talk about it. We don't have infinite money. This is not a socialized medicine issue since hospitals have to perform some sort of effective triage or they'll run out of beds.