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To Shield Corporate Healthcare Crooks, US Anoints COVID the Lone Perp

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Fix For US Healthcare

It’s the worst kept secret in the world. Even the clueless media have to come to grips with it.

Hospital Outsourcing Often Prioritizes Profit Over Patients. “[Texas A&M Today 8/20/2021];

 

“The Catastrophic Cost of Uninsurance: Covid-19 Cases And Deaths Closely Tied To America’s Health Coverage Gaps” [Families USA 3/4/20210];

“Push for Profits Left Nursing Homes Struggling to Provide Care” [The New York Times 5/7/2020];

The invasion of private equity and other corporate criminals into the health industry has put a deteriorating healthcare system on life support. COVID made a bad situation a shit show. With only 5% of the world’s population and the biggest healthcare budget in the world, the U.S. is also first in the number of COVID cases and deaths. It’s clear that COVID isn’t the only perp. Could part of the answer be the 89 million uninsured or underinsured Americans that have been victimized by corporate honchos chasing profits? Or does it come down to a $4 trillion healthcare market, 20% of U.S. GDP, that has motivated a corporate gold rush? With 24% of hospitals under private ownership, more than half of emergency room physicians working for private, profit-making companies, 70% of nursing homes and 47% of doctors’ practices owned by private companies, America’s healthcare woes began long before COVID and will outlast it. Want to know how America’s healthcare grifters sacrifice people to profits and spin fairy tales to hide it? Check out “To Shield Corporate Healthcare Crooks, U.S. Anoints Covid the Lone Perp”

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How the Most Expensive Healthcare in the World Became the Least Effective When Covid Struck

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Covid on the March

How does the U.S. healthcare profit making and taking boondogle that siphons off 18% of U.S. annual GDP, cashes in on the $4 trillion dollars spent by the public and the government perform in a major health crisis? The results are in. The most expensive healthcare in the world flopped badly. Compared to another hard-hit country, India, with three times the population (1.4 billion to 330 million) and with the U.S. coming into the pandemic with a GDP seven times greater than India’s ($21.5 trillion to $3 Trillion), simple math would suggest that India must have had a far worse experience than the U.S. If you thought that, you’d be wrong. In fact, the U.S., arguably the wealthiest and most powerful country on earth, suffered more than any other nation on earth. While the virus claimed 442,000 lives in India, COVID went on a tear in the U.S. claiming (as of this date) 662,000 lives. Although 51% of Americans are fully vaccinated compared to 13% of India’s population, death rates don’t lie. If you needed more proof that a privately held healthcare system can’t ever cut the mustard, here’s the moment you’ve been waiting for. Want to know how a tsunami of death and suffering and $4 trillion dollars coexist? Read “How the Most Expensive Healthcare in the World Became the Least Effective When Covid Struck.”

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