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Republicans say you can't get a healthcare subsidy because
they need the tax breaks more.

This is *exactly* why you can't free market things like safety devices

When you add a private tier, you don’t magically create extra surgeons or nurses.

You just give existing clinicians a more lucrative place to spend their limited time and energy.

So what happens in practice?

Doctors naturally prioritize higher-paying private cases with more flexible scheduling.

Public cases get bumped to the end of the day, the end of the week… then the end of the month.

We’ve seen this in the data. In places that allow surgeons to work both public and private lists, wait times in mixed clinics have often been longer than in fully public ones.

Same pool of staff. Different incentives. Slower public care.

Another claim: “Docs will just do private cases evenings and weekends.”

In a system already facing burnout, short-staffed shifts, and vacant nursing positions, banking on everyone happily adding a second job is… optimistic.

They'll pick one. And it won't be public.

So what does two-tier care actually “solve”?

Not the bottleneck. Not wait times overall.

It mostly changes who waits and who can buy their way to the front – while public queues risk getting slower, not faster.

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