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  • NABDad@lemmy.worldtopolitics @lemmy.worldPaging Dr. Land Baron
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    12 hours ago

    I’m biased, because I work for a non-profit health system.

    We have definitely been absorbing hospitals. There seem to be four major categories they fall into:

    1. Hospitals that are doing well and fit very well with the system’s goals so they make a very positive addition to the system.

    2. Hospitals that are surviving, but struggling and unable to compete against the for-profit bohemoths that are breathing down their neck.

    3. Hospitals that have failed because they simply couldn’t compete and are leaving a community without any viable options for healthcare.

    4. Hospitals that have failed because they were bought up by venture capitalists, assets sold off to benefit the VCs, and bankrupted when they couldn’t pay the debt that the VCs incurred for their purchase.

    My employer is far from perfect, but there is no question that the single overriding mission is to provide healthcare. We are not a real estate mogul masquerading as a hospital system.

    I couldn’t read the entire article, but the initial premise seems like something promoted by the for-profit healthcare industry to try to distract from their financial rape of their patients and communities.






  • We need to stop seeing governors and senators and representatives and saying, “they would be a great president!”

    Instead we need to see teachers, co-workers, and neighbors and say, “they would be a great on the city council or county government or as a state representative.”

    We need to stop thinking in terms of only one chance of victory every four years and start putting people who care about us in places where they can help.

    Of course, that means we have to be prepared to run, and that is hard as hell. So many of us are stretched to the absolute limit just trying to survive. I honestly don’t understand how anyone can do it.