Yes. From my own point of view, I think it's a really thorny issue, because as you add different types of providers to the community care sector, they will provide good quality care for people who need it. As you described, we are biased to providing the most expensive type of care, which is hospitals. Unless we have the will to close those hospital beds, they will fill them with someone else. Those people will then be re-hospitalized, and we're stuck with the same problem of having alternate level care patients in those beds or delivering additional preference- or sensitive-supply care. But those beds will be filled unless they're closed.
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