Privatisation is never the answer.
nationalisation, on the other hand…
Well it is a great answer when the question is what’s the quickest way to systematically destroy human society
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Telling you things? that’s gonna cost you
Look up Quentin Cook
Fuck that guy
In other news, study reveals stuff gets wet when splashed with water. More at 11.
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There’s a whole season of 'The Good Doctor ’ that shows this process happening.
LMFAO, how could any source report this with a straight face. DUH.
Capitalisms goal is to max short-term profit at any and all expenses, including your lives, locations, and social fabric. Capitalism does and will continue to kill you for short-term non-sustainable profit.
that sure wasn’t completely obvious from the outset
hardly even at all
The increases are seen in conditions or outcomes deemed preventable and are key measures of hospital safety and quality.
But not profit. If these hospitals were paid based on decreasing preventable conditions we’d all be much better off.
Right now coming into a hospital twice is more profitable than coming into a hospital once. If we (insurance) paid based on minimizing visits then both hospital safety and quality would increase.
That isn’t to say it’s perfect. Corporations will always find loop-holes in the name of profit, but it would be a good first step. (Assuming we’re going to have for-profit hospitals at all, which is the real mistake.)
Almost as if the new priority were then profits instead of adequate patient care… Almost…
If you are surprised by this you probably have a poster of Ayn Rand on your wall.
Glad this was the top comment for me. Don’t need to scroll any further.
It’s almost like privatizing public services is, somehow, a bad idea. But, but, but… capitalism…
E: jokes aside. The findings in these studies, while obvious to some (possibly most) people, are extremely important. Feelings without supporting data, are just opinions. Feeling with supporting data, are facts. Because of this study, we now have facts to fight against further privatization of public services.
I don’t know, I’m starting to get the sneaking suspicion that “good” and “profitable” aren’t synonyms. It’s almost as if there is often a financial incentive to make things worse…
Right. Like they deliberately make good things into shit. I wish there was a good term for this phenomenon.
hmm, if we follow the example like “desertification”, how about “shittification”?
Enshittification. Coined by Cory Doctorow.
Haha yes, I know. I was kidding. Sorry.
It’s called “rent seeking.” Even if some ya sci-fi author tried to coin a new term, there is nothing new about this type of behavior.
Greed.
No, no. Unabashed greed.
No, take it all the way. Fuck the little people to support my unabashed greed.
Quality, especially in a service like healthcare, often doesn’t mean profit. It’s all about “how low can i make my overhead costs to make my good/service just BARELY passable, then take it one step lower”.
I’m starting to get the sneaking suspicion that “good” and “profitable” aren’t synonyms.
They’re polar opposites.
Maybe one day there will be politicians with the balls to actually do something about it.
You don’t need supporting data to understand businesses will do whatever will maximize profit.
This intrinsically means charging the most while providing the least.
Not to understand, no. But to fight it in a legal court, you need data and fact.
This is absolutely true.
Privatization is the biggest scam of the 20th and 21st centuries. It has ruined every service it’s touched and made them all more expensive. The exact opposite of what Neoliberal clowns keep telling us.
But Argentina thinks if they try it one more time…
Very few cultures are able to pass the United States.
Most of them just follow behind, like businesses copying Apple.
The United States is the poster child for what NOT to do with healthcare for the good of the population
In other news, water is wet
