[BostonCard]

https://www.npr.org/2020/05/26/862018484...c-like-cov

Just brutal.

"If that rule had gone into effect, then every hospital, every nursing home would essentially have to have a plan where they made sure they had enough respirators and they were prepared for this sort of pandemic," said David Michaels, who at the time served as head of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.

While I am sympathetic to avoiding overregulation, sometimes the benefits of regulation aren't visible until it is too late.  Of course, hospitals and nursing homes should have been ready for something like this regulation or not, but there are a lot of strong incentives (mostly monetary) to minimize in this sort of "just in case" preparedness.

BC

[BostonCard]

https://www.npr.org/2020/05/26/862018484...c-like-cov

Just brutal.

"If that rule had gone into effect, then every hospital, every nursing home would essentially have to have a plan where they made sure they had enough respirators and they were prepared for this sort of pandemic," said David Michaels, who at the time served as head of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.

While I am sympathetic to avoiding overregulation, sometimes the benefits of regulation aren't visible until it is too late.  Of course, hospitals and nursing homes should have been ready for something like this regulation or not, but there are a lot of strong incentives (mostly monetary) to minimize in this sort of "just in case" preparedness.

BC

[burger]

China's fault. </s>

[burger]

China's fault. </s>

[82 Card]

https://www.npr.org/2020/05/26/862018484...c-like-cov

Just brutal.

"If that rule had gone into effect, then every hospital, every nursing home would essentially have to have a plan where they made sure they had enough respirators and they were prepared for this sort of pandemic," said David Michaels, who at the time served as head of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.

While I am sympathetic to avoiding overregulation, sometimes the benefits of regulation aren't visible until it is too late.  Of course, hospitals and nursing homes should have been ready for something like this regulation or not, but there are a lot of strong incentives (mostly monetary) to minimize in this sort of "just in case" preparedness.

BC

I suppose another way would be to go socialist and have the government provide a brobdingnagian stockpile in order to backstop the individual providers' supplies. Problem is, these guys chose plan C, do nothing.

[82 Card]

https://www.npr.org/2020/05/26/862018484...c-like-cov

Just brutal.

"If that rule had gone into effect, then every hospital, every nursing home would essentially have to have a plan where they made sure they had enough respirators and they were prepared for this sort of pandemic," said David Michaels, who at the time served as head of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.

While I am sympathetic to avoiding overregulation, sometimes the benefits of regulation aren't visible until it is too late.  Of course, hospitals and nursing homes should have been ready for something like this regulation or not, but there are a lot of strong incentives (mostly monetary) to minimize in this sort of "just in case" preparedness.

BC

I suppose another way would be to go socialist and have the government provide a brobdingnagian stockpile in order to backstop the individual providers' supplies. Problem is, these guys chose plan C, do nothing.

[oldalum]

I'm guessing the decision to kill the regulation was not made after a careful cost-benefit analysis with consideration of alternatives such as government stockpiling, assuring supply chain surge capacity, etc.; it was probably part of a general purge of pending regulations (easier to kill them than to undo existing regulations) based on the philosophy that:

government regulation = usually bad
government regulation promulgated by the Obama administration = incredibly bad without question.

[oldalum]

I'm guessing the decision to kill the regulation was not made after a careful cost-benefit analysis with consideration of alternatives such as government stockpiling, assuring supply chain surge capacity, etc.; it was probably part of a general purge of pending regulations (easier to kill them than to undo existing regulations) based on the philosophy that:

government regulation = usually bad
government regulation promulgated by the Obama administration = incredibly bad without question.