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Deaths Rose in Emergency Rooms After Hospitals Were Acquired by Private Equity Firms

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Submitted ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨return2ozma@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨aboringdystopia@lemmy.world⁩

https://hms.harvard.edu/news/deaths-rose-emergency-rooms-after-hospitals-were-acquired-private-equity-firms

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  • lido@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    No shit.

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  • Cruxifux@feddit.nl ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    SHOCKING

    Why the fuck are we still arguing about this? Privatized necessities do not work. This has been proven for almost 200 years with our current systemic dichotomy.

    I hate living in North America. This conversation should have been over forever ago but it’s still raging.

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  • useyourmainfinger@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    No way we could have seen that coming…

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  • Hegar@fedia.io ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This is one of those important pieces of data that bears remembering in many different contexts: the rich will happily kill you for a buck. That's a big part of why they're rich.

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  • whoisthedoktor@lemmy.wtf ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Maybe if hospitals would stop being sponsored by Jesus and healing by faith bullshit, they might be able to actually save people.

    “WELCOME TO OUR MOTHER OF THE HOLY LORD JESUS CHRIST BAPTIST HOSPITAL, how would you like us to pray away your gaping wound today?”

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    • chuckleslord@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      This is an article about capitalist profits killing people. Take your religious crusade elsewhere please

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  • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    seen it when it was first being posted like 2 years ago on a sub, when user was frustrated by the lack of private physicians in her area for her child, one user said it was due to private equity and teledoc companies.

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  • toiletobserver@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Counter intuitive, dead people don’t pay bills. You’d think they would ensure alive people who could be saddled with medical debt forever, thus an income stream. If i were a greedy business, I’d do it like that.

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    • sefra1@lemmy.zip ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Healthy people don’t pay bills either, they try to aim for a balance between almost dying and actually dead.

      “A patient cured is a client lost”

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      • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        insurance also depends on healthy people that never uses thier insurance, hence thats why they price older and chronically ill people.

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  • frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    CMS didn't pick up on this? What are the damn inspections for if they don't suss out shit like this.

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    • mysticpickle@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I mean it’s all under RFK Jr. who doesn’t really care about inconsequential little things like data.

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      • Archer@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        They gotta make the evidence to show that what they want to do is right. Facts that they don’t like need to be suppressed and ignored

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  • avidamoeba@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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