[daemin]

Because the USA is for-profit healthcare industry they need to optimise and increase efficiency. That's the only way to make the numbers go up. Therefore fewer doctors, fewer nurses, fewer administrators (maybe), and more paying patients.

[bryanlarsen]

It's no better in other countries. Other country's health care systems are typically monopsonies, which means we get crappier results for lower prices. So instead of the doctor choosing to do 6 patients per hour instead of 4, it's the government.

[anadem]

> more paying patients

that's a chilling thought; don't give them ideas

[slater]

Surprising that you imply they haven't already been capitalizing (ha!) on that idea since the 1970s :D