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GB_RN

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3. It's Not Just Private Equity...
Tue Jan 7, 2025, 05:43 PM
Jan 7

For profit “healthcare” companies do the exact same shit. HCA (Hospital Corporation of America) and its Medicare fraud case while Florida’s junior senator, Rick Scott (Q-Skeletor) was CEO, is the People’s evidentiary exhibit #1. HCA continues to screw poor communities (patient dumping, shuttering inner city hospitals to save $$, etc.) and hospitals that it purchases (cutting staff, purchasing inferior equipment). All in the name of Jack Welch’s abominable creation, “shareholder value.”
Death Panels? Got ‘em. Had them long before Sarah Palin came along. They’re called for-profit health insurance companies. See how denial of care affects people. United Healthcare is the worst offender, with denials far exceeding the next closest. Once again, all in the name of profits and “shareholder value.”

Patients and staff suffer because of these assholes.

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