Given that the current healthcare system is stretched thin and new talent is not being created fast enough to meet demand, privatizing healthcare will drain resources from the established system. Privatization does not directly address the scarcity of resources. Privatization is a short term fix that only exacerbates problems in the future. Profit-seeking ventures in medicine have become exploitative and drive costs higher in pursuit of larger returns. Healthcare is expensive to expand, but incentives that are by nature exploitative will not address shortages, but rather drive even higher costs. Instead, focusing on decreasing barriers for doctors to move from different localities and increasing training capacities will eventually expand treatment capacity. Specific approaches to solving healthcare challenges are required and creation of private healthcare only generates more challenges to unified changes to the system.
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