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[-] memfree@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I suspect it isn't that there aren't enough people that care, but more that hospitals have been hyper-monetized so that regular people can't afford health care. If you don't have insurance, you'll avoid U.S. healthcare as a matter of financial survival. If you do have insurance, health care is still ridiculously expensive. Add systemic racism to the mix and care providers may go with the least care for people of color on the presumption they are less likely to be able to pay for it.

What happened to hospitals as charitable institutions? I remember Reagan closing state hospitals because of gross negligence, but why didn't we fix them instead of sending all the homeless people onto the streets? And what about the rest of the not-for-profit ones? They all seem to be corporate entities now and their only goal is to get as much money as they can at the lowest overhead.

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