Dr. Colm Henry:

Beds in private hospitals are not akin to beds in the public hospital system. The public hospital system can easily flex to deal with unscheduled care, as members have heard with regard to surge beds and the space for elective activity. The private hospital system deals with some unscheduled care activity but is largely configured to deal with procedures and episodic healthcare. There is some complex healthcare too, but the public healthcare system more easily flexes towards dealing with unscheduled care at scale than the private healthcare system.