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When you have for-profit healthcare, it’s not surprising that the system optimizes for short term profits over the well-being of healthcare workers or patients. People are willing to pay almost anything to stay alive and/or healthy. Healthcare workers will be paid (and otherwise treated) just well enough that they don’t leave. Sadly, the incentives are awful for people who get into healthcare for altruistic reasons.

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When you have state run healthcare there are a lot of wait lists. You can have an excess supply and ration by price or a modest supply and ration by waiting

When you have private for-profit healthcare you get a lot of wait lists. They come in the forms of "I can't afford that" and "I can still walk on that leg, I don't need to spend our retirement."

Not all not-for-profit institutions are government run. Supposedly, there are more non-profit hospitals than for-profit hospitals. Although I am not in the industry, the cynical part of me suspects that some of these exist to shelter liability from profit centers.

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