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The only reason wait tines would possibly be lower in for-profit health care is because there are fewer people in the system because more people can't afford it.
And we're told that's a good thing?
For-profit healthcare has an incentive to minimize costs
Public healthcare can have incentives like less wait time …. As long as we decide to pay for it
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Edit: maybe I assumed too much context since everyone is reading the opposite of my intended meaning
They will pay medical providers as little as they can, which increases wait times. They do not have incentives to reduce wait times
Without the profit motive, public healthcare can choose to pay for better service , reducing wait times. Typical approaches for similar services would be setting standards on things like the max number of patients a physician can support. They probably won’t, because Conservatives, but they could
lol
the exact opposite is the truth
There is an incentive to lower overheads but when they can simply raise prices to compensate the incentive isn't as appealing as the simpler, easier option.