After private equity takes over hospitals, they are less able to care for patients, say top medical researchers
After private equity takes over hospitals, they are less able to care for patients, say top medical researchers
A study by physicians in the Journal of the American Medical Association describes a pattern of selling land, equipment and other resources after private equity acquires hospitals.
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These stories never show the positive side. Sure the hospitals can't take care of the patients as well as before and that is an unfortunate reality that just can't be avoided. However now the hospitals can take better care of the shareholders (slave holders)!
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And isn't that what it's really all about in the end? What are hospitals if not profit generators for the owner class? Those private equity heroes took an oath to "do no harm" to their shareholders' financial quarter.
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Why would these removed be getting sick, and daddy not make his mother fucking money?
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This is just the rich looting hospitals to enrich themselves.
In the UK the rich looted hospitals to such measurably bad health outcomes that the average height dropped by 1cm (1/2 inch) during the tories' 14 year tenure.
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A small price to pay so better people can live their best lives
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Shocking
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Isn't that the case with all things?
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It's like if you sell all the parts for scrap from your car and then are surprised you can't drive to work.
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old news.,
Everyone know that private equity fuck up anything they take over.