As someone who lives in a country with socialized medicine, (Canada), the discussion of hospitals removing "normal" (shared) rooms to replace them with more-profitable private rooms is disturbing. Here, private rooms have become the standard that all new hospitals are built to. Not only are patients generally happier, but they drastically reduct the spread of germs between patients in hospitals. When my kids were bor…
Can you explain your first sentence? What is the discussion surrounding shared vs. private rooms?
In the article there's a whole section about how hospitals are removing non-private, (aka "normal"), rooms, to replace them with more-profitable private rooms that patients pay for out-of-pocket, (and, since they're not insurance companies, can't negotiate better rates).