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Re:After Appalachian Hospitals Merged into a Monopoly, Their... by autoexec on Tuesday March 26, 2024 @10:38PM (#39835165)
I never understood the desire to be ruled over by private organizations designed to exploit you leaving you basically powerless to do anything about it. You aren't allowed to vote for the CEO of a billion dollar multinational.

Governments on the other hand are something that every person has the power to change and influence directly. For all the effort that has gone into making it harder for people to change their government effectively, we're still better poised to do that than we are when up against massive corporations.

Re:After Appalachian Hospitals Merged into a Monopoly, Their... by amanaplanacanal on Wednesday March 27, 2024 @05:04AM (#39836900)
The theory is that competition will solve the problem, if you don’t like one company you can go to another. There are a lot of areas where this doesn’t seem to work though, for various reasons.
Re:After Appalachian Hospitals Merged into a Monopoly, Their... by krapp on Wednesday March 27, 2024 @06:29AM (#39837385)
Also it fails to take into account that in an unregulated system companies will simply collude rather than compete.