Moving parts in looming healthcare collapse:
1. Private equity governance
2. Loss of elective care profits
3. Staffing attrition from ptsd
4. Existing overload
5. Mutant strain + holiday surge
6. Delayed build-up of non-urgent care
7. Loss of employer health coverage for many
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8. Vast fiscal deficits and likely reluctance to bail out health sector. It’s not like they’re critical like banks or car makers
9. General human capital degradation as people quit permanently from thankless stress
10. Vaccine reluctance
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Anyone got a good long-read that games all this out into a thought-through doomsday scenario?
Are there any compensating mechanisms kicking in?
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1. and 7. no position; 2. to 6. should've surprised nobody (Northern Italy gave a 1yr head start); still on 5. a virus mutates wicked fast and RNA virus are esp tricky to handle; and 8. daunting vaccine logistics (and effectiveness?)

