| All of your assumptions are untrue. (1) Governments don't need unlimited money, just to allocate what they have better (2) For-profit hospitals don't pay better wages because they are for-profit. They exist for the owners/stock-holders, not the employees, who are viewed as 'human capital', not partners. There is no reason a for-profit hospital would pay its workers any more than any other, and many reasons why it would pay less (3) People who want to 'make bank' are not nurses -- they just want to be paid fairly for the work they do, and to be able to have decent work conditions. The ones who are in it for the money are not going to be in the intake at the emergency department no matter what country or profit/social system is in effect (4) Why would they need more taxes to pay more wages? They could take taxes they already spend on something and move it to wages, or they could borrow money, or remove inefficiencies, or print more money, or invest in the economy which will bring in more taxes -- it is not a binary decision (5) And you think that running healthcare with CEOs and stockholders in charge who require profit growth every quarter and are used to working their staff to the point where it is just barely enough to not have everything break because that is the most profitable way to run a business -- is better? |