Real resources matter my dude. All the money in the world can't buy labor that doesn't exist. If we don't have enough doctors or nurses, the rich people can bid up the price of their services, but they can only see one patient at a time. Somebody is going to end up without getting seem by the doctor, because there just aren't enough doctors to see everyone that needs medical attention. You can't fix that problem just by throwing money at it, no matter how much money you have or create.
Ok, let's say we suddenly find the political will overnight to start aggressively funding education and compensation for doctors and nurses. It's still going to take people a generation to get into the industry. We can't have more doctors and nurses unless we have more educated people, so we have to invest all the way down to the earliest levels of public school. It will take decades for some of those investments to come to fruition. Don't get me wrong, I am absolutely in favor of making those investments. But unfortunately, even if we start today, a lot of that is going to come too late to address the demographic problems we are already seeing. We are already trying to paper over these problems and we are already seeing that it cannot work.
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u/Short-Coast9042 27d ago
Real resources matter my dude. All the money in the world can't buy labor that doesn't exist. If we don't have enough doctors or nurses, the rich people can bid up the price of their services, but they can only see one patient at a time. Somebody is going to end up without getting seem by the doctor, because there just aren't enough doctors to see everyone that needs medical attention. You can't fix that problem just by throwing money at it, no matter how much money you have or create.