The way to do this is a modest hospital tax.

That way the funding is scaled to the size of the industry without reevaluating it year to year.

We already do this sort of thing via Medicare. It's simply underfunded. It seems it would be more effective to expanded and properly manage the existing tax than start a new one. In theory, this would scale well based on population.

Taxing hospital revenues aligns the tax with what you want it to reduce.

I suppose it would end up in healthcare organizations working to have care classified as non-hospital to avoid the tax.

How would it reduce staffing shortages? Hospitals wouldn't care if they pass it on to patients. It would be cheaper to continue to understaff since they'd pay the tax either way.

Even many domestic doctors have had difficulty getting residencies due to the funding structure.