Hundreds of extra hospital beds, and the opening of 10 new major hospitals are also praised, as is the 30% increase in the number of computer tomography (CT) cancer scanners.
The number of scanners per capita in the U.S. is now 7x (for CT) and 2.5x (for MRI) the average of France and Germany, and many of these scanners are poorly utilized but still profitable for their owners at prevailing price levels.