Comment by mapontosevenths
1 day ago
I can see your perspective, but healthcare isn't always a zero sum game. It can be empathetic and useful while also being profitable. It often isn't, but it can be.
1 day ago
I can see your perspective, but healthcare isn't always a zero sum game. It can be empathetic and useful while also being profitable. It often isn't, but it can be.
There is plenty of evidence that Hospitals, Nursing Homes operated by private equity have way more worse outcomes than those of other operators, even for-profit ones
Yes. It starts benign "no major changes!" and soon stock is reduced, staff get cut, and cost cutting rules are enacted by people who never have to witness the effects on the patients who slip into worse outcomes. And if it crashes into the ground they can float away on golden parachutes.
Why does it HAVE to be profitable?
Why can't we just leave some things out of the whole madness?
It's not like we don't have enough stuff that can be made profitable already.
Just let your customers be healthy, have a roof over their head, water, electricity, internet. They'll have more time and money to spend on all the other profitable stuff.
It doesn't have to be EVERYTHING!
Because we would like people to continue providing our healthcare services?
Why should they stop doing that?
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