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Fascist_are_horrible t1_j66l450 wrote

Our for profit healthcare systems are dying. All the pressure to keep the broken system going is put on nursing and they are understaffed/under paid. Besides beating the caretakers, it is the patients who suffer. It is not a good time to be sick in a hospital.

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getridofwires t1_j677qwo wrote

We need a different approach, for sure. No one asks if the military is profitable. The country decided it’s important and it is funded. Medicine should be the same: it’s not here to make money, it’s a service everyone needs and it should be set up that way.

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masquenox t1_j69mnqj wrote

No, I think the for-profit healthcare system is doing fine. After all - it was only ever designed to take care of billionaires' profit margins.

The patients dying is merely an externality - the cost of doing "good business" (which the billionaires don't have to worry about, of course).

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