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There are four pigs at the trough of US healthcare: 1) drug/device companies 2) insurance companies 3) trial lawyers 4) doctors When asked what's wrong, they
by AtlasBarfed 6y ago
There are four pigs at the trough of US healthcare:
1) drug/device companies
2) insurance companies
3) trial lawyers
4) doctors
When asked what's wrong, they point at one of the other three.
The AMA is guild that makes sure doctors stay rich, valued, and semi-scarce.
- terr-dav 6y agoWhat about for profit hospitals? It’s the marketization of health care that incentivizes suffering and death, not any particular group.
- triceratops 6y agoOk so 5 pigs at the trough.
- kgwgk 6y agoFor-profit hospitals are not that important (~20% of the hospital system). Edit: But if lawyers can make it to that list hospitals can as well (including not-for-profit hospitals paying huge salaries, just because they are not “for profit” it doesn’t mean they are not profit-driven).
- pessimizer 6y agoNon-profit hospitals are responsible for the bulk of health care costs, they just extract the profits in salaries.
- Spivak 6y agoCalling salaries extraction of profits is a weird way of spinning people being paid for their work. Even the most egregious executive and administrator salaries are small potatoes on a hospital’s balance sheet.