• DragonBallZinn [he/him]
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    10 months ago

    At this point, just establishing universal healthcare should be the centrist compromise.

    • Tunnelvision [they/them]
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      10 months ago

      At this point I’m pretty sure they don’t want to do it because it would be pretty obvious a large portion of the population is just walking around with diseases and conditions caused by their work or American life in general.

    • Great_Leader_Is_Dead
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      10 months ago

      Honestly, it seems weird to me, there are certain Succ reforms that seem like they'd BENEFIT capital, healthier workers work harder after all, social stability is also good for business. It seems weird to me how much resistance this basic shit gets from the American ruling class since it really wouldn't be costing them that much and they'd likely see some benefits from it in the long run.

      I'm almost convinced the US bourgeois have drank too much of their own Kool Aid and actually believe this AnCap crap they've been propagating for years.

  • CoolYori [she/her]
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    10 months ago

    Hey look they are talking about the company I work for. My company got sold to private equity then they bought up another company that has like sub 25 bed hospitals in rural areas throughout places like Texas and "merged" them with us. They did this by not using their own money but by taking out large bank loans. Cowards cant even live up to their "I am risking my money here" personas they like to project.

  • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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    10 months ago

    Lots of shitty things a hospital can do to soak you, even if you've only stepped through the door once

  • Infamousblt [any]
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    10 months ago

    Americans about to realize that private for profit healthcare isn't as good as they thought it was.

    • SuperZutsuki [they/them]
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      10 months ago

      Pretty sure most Americans realized that the first time they had to pay an insurance premium or definitely the first time their insurance denied a claim

      • operacion_ogro [he/him]
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        10 months ago

        The recent anti-vax nonsense that reached a fever peak when COVID broke out is obviously part of today's culture wars, but could never have thrived without a deep, deep mistrust of the US healthcare system that the private for-profit industry has fostered over the last several decades

        • WithoutFurtherBelay
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          10 months ago

          Which of course makes them untrustworthy of public healthcare, like someone hired to throw shit at someone and then claim my greatest enemy hired them to do it

  • sovietknuckles [they/them]
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    10 months ago

    List of hospitals, including ones owned and not owned by private equity: https://pestakeholder.org/private-equity-hospital-tracker/#hospital_tracker

  • Beaver [he/him]
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    10 months ago

    No way, I was taught that private equity brings reforms to distressed organizations resulting in higher efficiency and better outcomes for customers. Surely the invisible had will correct this obvious failure of the market porky-point