Posted on 01/04/2018 7:48:21 AM PST by Brilliant
We used to have excess capacity.
It was part of our national defense, like the highways that could turn into airstrips
The government through Healthcare finance bureaucracies shut down excess capacity in the 80s and 90s.
We are more like NHS that our seventies selves.
I think we already have third world medicine. I would never leave a beloved family member in the hospital alone. Ever. If there is no family member, I would hire a nurse, not an aid, a nurse to private care you.
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