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Re:30% of All Rural Hospitals in the US Are at Risk of Closi... by hospitalJail on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @03:11PM (#36049263)
> And somehow people defend this system

The defenders of the system are entirely medical workers and owners.

The various medical lobbies/cartels are incredibly strong.

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Re:30% of All Rural Hospitals in the US Are at Risk of Closi... by zamnos on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @03:26PM (#36049539)
Are medical workers even that loud a defender of the system? A lot of providers are burnt out and leaving the profession due to being overworked.
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Re:30% of All Rural Hospitals in the US Are at Risk of Closi... by jjav on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @03:49PM (#36049933)
> The defenders of the system are entirely medical workers

No, that's not correct. Doctors and nurses largely despise the US system. They are incredibly overworked and streched too thin to provide great care (and most of them are in it at least partially because they enjoy caring for people).

The US system only benefits the middlemen who provide no healtcare value: insurance companies and hospita/clinic adminitrators.

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Re:30% of All Rural Hospitals in the US Are at Risk of Closi... by hospitalJail on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @04:06PM (#36050145)
Doctors like it enough to spend 490 million dollars to keep it in place

https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/top-spenders?cy...

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