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Sean Valdrow's avatar

Honestly, jackals are far nobler and serve a more useful function than these PE vermin. I am at a loss to find an appropriate metaphor; any animal I select doesn't deserve being besmirched by comparison with these money-grubbers.

Predatory fails to accurately describe it; predators serve a useful function too.

Their practices are inhumanly sadistic, short-sighted, usurious and avaricious in the extreme. My wife and I can no longer afford medical care. It costs too much, the doctors are incompetent to some degree and very arrogant, and they employ any an ever excuse to deprive us of money.

Anecdote: I had a TIA; went to ER. It was rather alarming; I feared a tumor. Into the MRI. Total cost about 6000 dollars. Result: we can't find anything, we don't know why. Around the same time, the wife gets an aching belly with a strange red ring around her belly button. Into the ER. Result: 5000 dollars and we don't know why.

I can't afford that.

I shouldn't have to pay to be told 'dunno.' If an auto mechanic fails to fix my car, I ain't paying him. Why should I? He did nothing. Why should I have to pay a doc who does the same?

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Will Hayden's avatar

It was inevitable with Obamacare. There was massive move of private practice doctors into hospital and corporate doctor groups, and early retirement for others who opted out because of costs, regulations and liability, The ethos from “first, do no harm” to “do as your masters tell you or be cancelled” was proven with Covid mandates. The PE firms are part of the package, if you do the fist the second follows in any for profit corporatized industry whenever there is a hedge to be monetized for short term gains by sharks who smell blood in the water. Same thing happened and is happening to poor people living in trailer parks with the skyrocketing costs of housing now. USA Inc has turned into one nation under money, that is our false god these days. When you turn away from the source of freedom, consequences follow. Solution? Cancel National Healthcare, it is unconstitutional. Go back to private practice doctors. Anything else is a bandaid on a bleeding artery. Fix it or stay healthy and stay away from “sickcare” it ain’t healthy. Maybe we need to start a black market for doctors, cash only.

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