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Originally Posted by Azure
Another solution would be to create a private side ER. You can go sit in the crappy publicly funded ER for hours on end, or you can pay private insurance and get faster treatment at a private ER. Would probably go a long way to alleviate the problems. All major cases would still go through the public system.
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The problem with that is that if you give docs the choice or working in the public or private ERs, your delivery costs within the public system go up.
Of course, one might argue that's it's wrong for the government to achieve lower healthcare costs through a labour monopsomy in the first place.