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pervocracy
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Here's a grim but enlightening article about a healthcare property company with a history of "investing" in rural community hospitals, then bleeding them dry. (I mention this specific company for no particular reason.)

I talked to a doctor lately who said he thinks this is the last gasps of our healthcare system before the government has to step in and nationalize the business. God I hope he's right. Yeah there's drawbacks to government-controlled hospitals but at least we might have hospitals.


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Back when I lived in Miami there was basically a three tier system:

the publicly owned healthcare system (Jackson Memorial, partnered with the University of Miami) - this was where you really wanted to wind up for care
the local terrible private monopoly (Baptist Health) - I really don't understand how they were even in business as it was nigh impossible to receive care from them
the local perplexingly awful little shitbag hospital that supposedly couldn't afford blankets and cleaning supplies and was really only ever good at stabilizing patients in trauma cases because they couldn't be successfully brought over to Jackson (Kendall AMI) - don't

yeah I definitely saw where a public hospital system could work damn well. It was just unfortunate that Baptist basically blocked them out of being able to serve most of the population by hoovering up every private facility with a certificate of need in the 90s

my pessimism says they would be happy to let hospitals fail as a form of genocidal warfare on the poorest, and will be seen to be doing something based on making aca insurance cheaper even though it wont help.

the government never has to do anything, and i dont believe class consciousness exists in great enough concentration currently to hold them to account for this in particular

my very moderated optimism says there is certainly great indifference in this country but there is not, by and large, a desire for total hide-in-the-bunker collapse. the number of hospitals at risk would endanger much more than just the poorest segment of the population, and specifically it impacts elderly rural people who are a pretty valued voting bloc.

I can believe that the government won't step in because the hospital companies say "no no we can totally free market our way out of this" and it's financially advantageous to politicians to pretend to believe them, but not because they're actively muah-ha-haing about the opportunity to kill

youre not wrong about the first part but it is my opinion that the elites are willing to let us twist in the wind a little more until they are satisfied they have killed the early-pandemic uprisings out of us for now, and are also incredibly short sighted in how that is accomplished. republicans were recorded as trying to encourage covid deaths because they thought it would improve their electoral positions, and many people just did not give a fuck because that fell largely on people of color, disabled people, prisoners, and the poorest laborers.

there are always people who are gleefully planning deaths, and this motivates some portion of the pretending to believe you mention. covid policy in the us has been from day one a force multiplier for genocides in motion long before now.