> But it is not an ethical dilemma; it is a resource-allocation problem.

Sure, it's a resource-allocation problem, but _right now_ it is an ethical dilemma. None of what you're suggesting will suddenly make the problem gone in a year, hence why I called it hand-waving.

> Why are there a limited number of people who can maintain them and perform care on a long-term basis?

You're just asking the question "why aren't there more people working in the ICU?". Somehow I don't think this is a problem that would be solved in a year if someone just 'finally sat down and worked on it'.

As the the article points out, people are _already_ working on the issues you came up with, it just turns out they're actually hard problems to solve.