In reply to kennycan.

Pro Tip: The nursing homes are all clustered near hospitals, statewide, already. There are two huge senior living complexes with thousands of residents, from fully independent, to totally bed-ridden or drooling in their own laps, that monopolize the nearest two hospitals in normal times, 24/7/365, and have for years. (Everyone else in the neighborhood? They can just eat shit.)

WhereTF do you think they're going to build them?

I worked at one of those hospitals, run by Tenet, and they won't expand capacity, and have refused to do so for literally decades, because they'd go broke on Medicare low-balled non-reimbursement.

Kaiser has made a career out of taking premiums from young, healthy patients who just need check-ups and maternity care, and use that money to subsidize (and largely ignore until they need hospice) their older, sicker patients, because Medicare doesn't pay the bills. They virtually (and actually) let their older patients die, because otherwise, they'd have gone bankrupt years and years ago.