Fast forward almost six decades into the COVID-19 pandemic, and we were once again short of the resources needed for hemodialysis, but we were also short on ventilators, oxygen, hospital beds, etc. Solutions, such as increasing production of supplies and equipment and paying health care workers huge sign-on bonuses, are short-term simplistic fixes for long-term problems. Thats not to say that added production capacity would not help or that nurses should not be paid more in the long-term, but neither will solve the whole problem we have now, position us better for the next pandemic, or create a health care system that produces better outcomes.
Who Lives? Who Dies?