#for-profit healthcare

[allthecanadianpolitics]

"Ontario Premier Doug Ford's government is preparing to significantly ramp up the number of surgeries done in privately run for-profit clinics. 

Ford and Health Minister Sylvia Jones are planning to make an announcement next week on expanding the number and range of surgeries performed in independent health facilities outside of hospitals, said a senior government official, who asked not to be named because they were laying out government plans.

For Ontario patients, the official says the move will lead to thousands more surgeries and diagnostic procedures performed each year, an immediate way to reduce wait times for such operations as cataract removals.

Independent health facilities are clinics operated by the private sector that receive public funding from the Ontario Health Insurance Plan (OHIP) to perform medically necessary procedures. 

But various health-care professionals are concerned that the move would drain resources from publicly funded hospitals and benefit the owners of private-sector clinics without improving patient care. 

The agency that regulates doctors in the province, the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario, says it was not informed of the government's plans to implement the changes."

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#cdnpoli #canadian politics #canada #canadian news #canadian #ontario #healthcare #doug ford #for-profit healthcare

[aunti-christ-ine]

A Canadian visits America and gets held at gunpoint by a stranger

The stranger says, “Give me all your money and I’ll let you live!”

The Canadian replies gleefully, “Oh! You must be what they call a doctor!”

~ submitted by /u/OGPrinnny

#Singlepayer Sunday #Canada #universal healthcare #canada vs usa #for-profit healthcare #middlemen

[lenbryant]

Your 70th birthday…

#healthcare #for-profit healthcare #republicans #maga me sick #maga #politics #insurance companies #health insurance #ripoff #criminals

[odinsblog]

Welcome to America. If you’re poor, you’re dead. And it ain’t “inflation” that’s killing you, it’s corporate greed + government policies that, even in a pandemic, favor capitalism over human lives

👉🏿 https://theintercept.com/2021/09/07/joe-manchin-epipen-price-heather-bresch/

#politics #mediicare for all #profitized healthcare #privatized healthcare #capitalism #joe manchin #heather bresch #corporate greed #corporate profits #epipen #healthcare #m4a

[dontmean2bepoliticalbut]

HOW CHRISTIANITY SUPPORTS MULTIRACIAL, MULTICULTURAL DEMOCRACY

'The Bible doesn't mention abortion or gay marriage, but it goes on and on about forgiving debt, liberating the poor, and healing the sick' — This pastor perfectly explained how the values expressed in Christianity can support a multiracial, multicultural democracy instead of right-wing extremism (via jamestalarico on TikTok)

#christianity #religion #democracy

#us politics #news #nowthisimpact #Instagram #2024 #James Talarico #texas #christianity #religon #multiracial #multicultural #democracy #videos #now this #the bible #abortion #gay marriage #debt forgiveness #us healthcare #us health system #for profit healthcare #health insurance #drug prices #feed the hungry #house the homeless

[bassproshopspyramid]

image ID: the destiel breaking news meme, but after cas says "i love you", dean replies:

cas, danaher corporation and it’s subsidiary company cepheid are still charging tuberculosis (TB) patients in low- and middle-income countries $10–$20 to access quick and accurate testing despite the fact that cepheid’s genexpert machine tests were developed with at least $252 million in taxpayer money and doctors without borders found out that the tests only cost $3–$4.50 to produce. TB is a major cause of death and disability, not to mention that the inaccessibility of these tests leads to the spread of drug resistant TB around the globe.

it’s #timefor5. find out how you can help at tbfighters.org

#supernatural #destiel #people over profits #time for 5 #danaher #cepheid #tuberculosis #tb #public health #john green #vlogbrothers #danaher corporation #healthcare #social justice #medicine #epidemic #castiel #dean winchester #hank green #doctors without borders #médicines sans frontièrs #msf #stop tb #stoptb #partners in health #peopleoverprofits #timefor5 #image id #saw a similar one w the destiel template on twxttxr and i had to join in

[thoughtportal]

list of books https://www.versobooks.com/books/3665-how-to-blow-up-a-pipeline https://davidgraeber.org/books/bullshit-jobs/ https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/215462/dark-money-by-jane-mayer/ https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674238091 https://www.emilyhund.com/ https://www.emilylynnpaulson.com/books https://emilycontois.com/dinersdudesdiets/ https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?content=reviews&isbn=9780674241213 https://brownstargirl.org/the-future-is-disabled/ https://beltpublishing.com/products/radical-suburbs https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/H/bo28433484.html https://www.juliberwald.com/life-on-the-rocks/ https://beltpublishing.com/products/rethinking-fandom-how-to-beat-the-sports-industrial-complex-at-its-own-game https://firestorm.coop/products/18989-laziness-does-not-exist.html https://www.harvard.com/book/cultish/ https://americanexception.com/book/

#tiktok #books and literature #books and writing #books and libraries #books and reading #books and authors #books #read this #reading #capitalism is a scam #Healthcare #profit #economy #economics #technology #technology history #tech bros #tech #climate crisis

[not-safe-for-democracy]

#yeah jokes on us #health insurance #for profit healthcare

[feminist-space]

December 27th, 2023

Hospitals owned by private equity firms riskier for patients, study says

"(CNN) - Health care is more hazardous for patients at hospitals purchased by private equity firms, financing models designed to make money for investors.

That conclusion comes from a new study published Tuesday in the journal Jama.

The study looked at the rates of 10 serious adverse events associated with medical care at 51 hospitals, before and after they were purchased by private equity firms.

Researchers then compared those results with the rates of the same complications at more than 250 hospitals that were not owned by those entities.

The study revealed that, in those private equity firm-purchased hospitals, there was a 25% increase in patient complications.

The rates of patient falls inside the facility, central line infections and surgical site infections all increased.

The study author said treating fewer patients eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid benefits is one trend the research found.

Previous research has shown cuts to staffing and replacing more highly paid workers with those paid less Is often tied to private equity firm acquisitions.

Those firms have been acquiring large chunks of the U.S. health care delivery system in recent years, including hospitals, nursing homes, behavioral health systems and private physician practices.

Earlier this month, the Senate Budget Committee announced its bipartisan investigation of the impact of private equity purchases on health care facilities.

Copyright 2023 CNN Newsource. All rights reserved."

#for profit hospitals #healthcare capitalism #private equity damage #hospitals

[habeascorpseus]

im going to commit a felony

#habeas speaks #goodtimeswithscar #discourse #american healthcare #like im incensed right now because every time scar talks about his health on stream he always mentions shit like this #but this literally could Kill Him. #this is an insurance company realizing they apparently dont make a profit off of a person paying them to live anymore #and going 'okay time to go over to their house and kill them.' #like! #the profit motive for american healthcare is fucked up enough to hear about on the news #but this just puts into perspective #how a man can be happy and living his best life as his own insurance company decides his life is not worth not being paid #and are essentially going to murder him in a way thats legally sanctioned #like. someone needs to be fucking Hurt #because people need to start being scared of the desperate again

[spacedocmom]

Doctor Beverly Crusher @SpaceDocMom There can never be quality health care in any system that lets economic forces dictate care, be it for-profit care that pushes for what's profitable or underfunded care that allows insufficient care. You will all keep suffering until the money comes out of care entirely. emojis: black heart, blue heart, masked 12:47 PM · Oct 1, 2023

#star trek #doctor crusher #star trek the next generation #star trek memes #star trek tng #support #kindness #care #compassion #health care #healthcare #medicine #profit #economics #social justice #activism #social commentary #social issues #capitalism

[aunti-christ-ine]

#universal healthcare #singlepayer #medicare for all #for profit healthcare

[miniatureeyes]

is it just my eating disorder or should the agricultural society of america not have a say in how many calories the average person ought to eat per day?

#maybe i would also say you should have that many calories worth of grains if i was being paid six figures #to say as much #sus #scientific study #fake science #agriculture #eating disorder #for profit healthcare #weightloss #motivation #goals #suspicious #big food #supply chain #supply chain management #food crisis #thinspo #th1n$po #th1nsp1ration

[lesbianrey]

it literally makes me so mad how hard you have to fight against the culture to have healthy and loving families and communities

#i hate you capitalism i hate you cars i hate you 40 hour work weeks i hate you for profit healthcare

[odinsblog]

In the US, according to the CDC, more than 10,000 people died of COVID in December 2022, capping off a year that saw some 263,000 COVID deaths. As of this writing, 4,000 people have died of COVID in each of the last two weeks. As of this writing, average weekly deaths in the US account for 1 in every 5 COVID deaths reported globally. And deaths are, of course, not the only impact of the pandemic: Think tanks have highlighted that millions of people have long COVID and many are out of work as a result.

The Biden administration plans to end this arrangement as soon as this year. While we saw multiple allusions to this plan last year, the clearest articulation of the Biden administration’s intentions came from Jha in an August 2022 live stream when he spoke to the corporate lobbying group the US Chamber of Commerce. Jha stated, “We need to get out of that business … My hope is that in 2023 you’re going to see the commercialization of almost all of these products … so we just move them into the regular health care system. This business of kind of day-to-day running of a pandemic, It needs to transition,” he added.

It is hard to overstate just how much of a disaster it would be if the Biden administration is allowed to successfully transfer its responsibilities here.

Over the course of the pandemic, activists have been operating under conditions where the federal government has been the central point of leverage on the pandemic response. While state and local governments, businesses, and the courts have been important centers of activity, the Biden administration has held enormous responsibility for everything from vaccinations to setting the terms of public debate over the virus.

The moment that changes, the entire advocacy landscape around COVID will change. All of a sudden it’s not primarily the federal, state, and local governments we have to appeal to. Instead, it will be the government plus every private insurance company under the sun, Medicaid programs state by state, Pfizer, Moderna, the FDA, the courts, Walgreens, CVS, pharmacy benefit managers … the list goes on. We know that COVID advocacy will be forced to split in this way because it is how our existing political economy of health care currently distributes responsibility for everything else.

In other words, while we believe the Biden administration has failed on COVID in many respects, we know one thing for certain: If there is one thing built to fail more than the Biden administration, it’s “the regular health care system” in the US.

The most immediate impact of this move has been dramatically foreshadowed. In October 2022, Pfizer announced plans to increase the price of their vaccine to between $110 and $130 per dose. In early January of this year, Moderna made a nearly identical announcement that it plans to raise the price of its vaccines to the same price point per dose as Pfizer.

This is where it becomes important to have an understanding of the many failures of the US health care system. If responsibility for COVID vaccines is kicked to the private market, the effects of Pfizer and Moderna raising their prices will be felt extraordinarily unevenly.

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#politics #joe biden #healthcare #profitized healthcare #capitalism #privatized healthcare #medicare for all #m4a #coronavirus #covid-19 #public health

[lenbryant]

Our lovely for-profit healthcare system and the propaganda they spread.

#politics #republicans #maga me sick #maga #vote #healthcare #health insurance #american healthcare #for profit #sicko #bankrupt by medical bills #racism is the heart of it