Today, doctors are being proletarianized, joining the ranks of nurses, physicians' assistants and other health workers. In 2012, 60% of practices were doctor-owned and only 5.6% of docs worked for hospitals. Today, that's up by 1,000%, with 52.1% of docs working for hospitals, mostly giant corporate chains:
https://prospect.org/health/2023-08-04-when-mds-go-union/
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The paperclip-maximizing, grandparent-devouring transhuman colony organism that calls itself a Private Equity fund is endlessly inventive in finding ways to increase its profits by harming the rest of us. It's not just hospices - it's also palliative care.
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Writing for NBC News, #GretchenMorgenson describes how HCA Healthcare - the nation's largest hospital chain - outsourced its death panels to #IBMWatson, whose algorithmic determinations override MDs' judgment to send patients to palliative care, withdrawing their care and leaving them to die:
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