[rayiner]

It sounds like this guy needed around-the-clock, in-patient care. That's inherently expensive. While those facilities exist in countries with publicly funded healthcare, there's a huge shortage of in-patient beds, so there is some mechanism to funnel patients to outpatient care.

[cwmoore]

Don't leave out jails, without insurance and significant funds, that's what democracy has decided for you.

[andrewinardeer]

My state has the beds available, but no staff.

[arjie]

Usually beds in this context is a staffed operational bed. I was curious why they were complaining about beds back in the COVID era and looked into it. It means the physical object, the nursing staff, required clinician hours. They use the term “physical beds” in the rare contexts where those are significant.

[orwin]

For psychological care it isn't that bad. Probably because people will first get on anxiousness/depression pills, and convince themselve they are ok.