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Why
the U.S. Doesn’t Have More Hospital Beds
With
much of the news focused on the surge capacity of the nation’s hospitals
during the COVID-19 pandemic, Drew Altman’s latest Axios column examines why the nation has a shortage of
hospital beds and what can be done about it. He writes, “It’s a result of
past policies aimed at reducing hospital beds to control costs. If we want to
have surge capacity of hospital beds and equipment in place for the next
crisis, Congress will have to dictate that capacity by law, decide which
hospitals to put it in, and fund it, while increasing the strategic stockpile
of equipment like ventilators, masks and other PPE.“
Filling
the need for trusted information on national health issues, the Kaiser Family Foundation is
a nonprofit organization based in San Francisco, California.
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Monday, March 30, 2020
Why the U.S. Doesn’t Have More Hospital Beds
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