The benefit is in punting off complicated case quicker, because the insurance pay out is the same, regardless if you spend 30 seconds or 30 minutes on the patient.

There is often nothing you can do to help anyway, but you can certainly bill 250 bucks every 5 minutes, and many, many do so.

In fact, some physicians will not even accept complicated cases, especially if they involve chronic pain treated with opiates, thanks to the hysteria around overdoses today.

And that is the reason why universal healthcare will fail, and why the NHS has a private tier, and routinely pays for treatments outside of the UK, done in private hospitals.