Comment by cranky908canuck

> Everything you have listed above could be solved with money.

Except that when money was on the table, Reagan fired them. ATC is remote from most people's day-to-day awareness unless planes hit each other, but medical help that's held back is really in-your-face.

Granted, that's decades in the past. No way anyone would jump in and try to gut the public service like that today [1].

[1] sarky.