There was an interesting article published recently about ICUs, the medical wonders that happen there and the problems with them. It goes much deeper on this ve

There was an interesting article published recently about ICUs, the medical wonders that happen there and the problems with them. It goes much deeper on this very topic and is very interesting: https://thebaffler.com/salvos/the-power-and-peril-of-the-icu-gaffney https://thebaffler.com/salvos/the-power-and-peril-of-the-icu... It tracks the problem to the emergence of ICU wards being profit centers for hospitals, a development that began decades ago. Every hospital suddenly built an ICU ward and off to the races they all went. Also predictably, as jeanlucneptune touched on above, this lead to affluent neighborhoods having better care than non-affluent ones.