Patients are treated by taking pills now. Within 10 years, the pharmaceutical industry will develop a pill to clean out your arteries. Take a pill or get an injection, and there goes the plaque. If that happens, say goodbye to the rest of the hospitals. There goes the coronary bypass industry.
Hospitals are only open for heart disease now.
Most of what's going on in hospitals is nursing care, not medical care. We don't need hospitals for that. We could provide good home care and bring technology into people's homes. It's starting to happen. It took a long time, from about 1940 to 1960, for the railroads to get down to the level that they needed to be at.