"Tens of thousands of health care workers across the United States are going without pay today, even as providers in the nation's hot spots struggle to contain the coronavirus pandemic
...But instead of merely preserving hospital beds and other resources, this heavy-handed injunction has created a burden of its own design: a historic number of empty beds in systems left untouched by the pandemic.
At 18 percent of the U.S. economy, health care is a $3.6 trillion industry annually.
By barring all elective surgeries, which covers a huge array of operations, like knee reconstructions or even cancer biopsies, hospitals have been denied billions in revenue in just the last month alone.
Outpatient services account for half of all hospital revenue, which means hospitals are now making, and spending, half what they were this time last year..."
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