Is this news to anyone? The entire US healthcare system is designed to harm patients for profit.
this post was submitted on 19 Jan 2024
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Private equity is particularly ruthless, they are known for running things into the ground and profiting off the failure. When it happens in a hospital, the death rate measurably rises. Capitalism exists in a spectrum of fucked up from the corner store underpaying employees on one end to private equity on the extreme fucked up end. This is not your typical for-profit hospital, this is a newer phenomena, private equity is expanding it's operations.
Capitalism
Annnnd the hospital in Akron, OH just sold out to a for-profit firm. Fml
You’ll be broke before you even get there if you ever need an ambulance or god forbid fucking LifeFlight.
Although with that said, the one ambulance ride I’ve ever taken (that I don’t even fuckin remember) didn’t cost me a dime!… because I had already spent thousands and thousands to hit insurance max out of pocket.
A lot of people don’t have good insurance (or any at all) and that’s what’s really fucked up. The system can be an abusive one
Cyberpunk capitalist dystopia
They harm society as a whole, the greedy fucks