The ventilator shortage has never ever made sense. Even if those numbers were needed, getting them is of little use because there are not enough doctors to even run the ones they already had. Nobody is talking about the doctor shortage because the AMA is a powerful lobby and their number 1 focus for 50 years has been limiting the number of spots in medical schools to limit the number of doctors and keep doctor salaries high.
Nobody wants to piss off doctors right now, but this crisis (and really the entire healthcare cost crisis) is a direct result of the AMA lobbying hard to ensure supply of doctors is kept artificially low. Its the same shit OPEC does with oil. Cut supply to ensure high prices.
The ventilator shortage has never ever made sense. Even if those numbers were needed, getting them is of little use because there are not enough doctors to even run the ones they already had. Nobody is talking about the doctor shortage because the AMA is a powerful lobby and their number 1 focus for 50 years has been limiting the number of spots in medical schools to limit the number of doctors and keep doctor salaries high.
Nobody wants to piss off doctors right now, but this crisis (and really the entire healthcare cost crisis) is a direct result of the AMA lobbying hard to ensure supply of doctors is kept artificially low. Its the same shit OPEC does with oil. Cut supply to ensure high prices.
Tbf, there are already a lot of shitty doctors out there- how many otherwise qualified students aren't getting in to med school?
Well since we have affirmative action going full steam, probably a lot.
And how many people are on ventilators AT THE SAME TIME? They get better or die within some time frame then that ventilator is available again.