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Here in New York Andrew Cuomo spent the last decade closing hospitals and reducing hospital capacity at the behest of HMOs, for-profit hospitals, health insuran
by StanislavPetrov 5y ago
Here in New York Andrew Cuomo spent the last decade closing hospitals and reducing hospital capacity at the behest of HMOs, for-profit hospitals, health insurance companies and associated banks and Wall Street investors. It is expensive to maintain hospitals and have enough spare hospital capacity in case of a crisis, and officials at the state and federal level chose profits over capacity.
For the last 2 years, these same officials have telling us that we have no choice but to give up our freedoms, civil liberties and bodily autonomy because there aren't enough hospital beds. This was a manufactured crisis (even beyond the likely manufacturing of the virus in a CDC-funded Wuhan lab).
1975:
U.S. population: 219 million
Hospital beds: 1,465,828
Ratio: 1 bed per 149 people
2019:
U.S. population: 334 million
Hospital beds: 919,559
https://www.statista.com/statistics/185860/number-of-all-hospital-beds-in-the-us-since-2001/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/185860/number-of-all-hos...