No shit.
No way we could have seen that coming…
This is one of those important pieces of data that bears remembering in many different contexts: the rich will happily kill you for a buck. That’s a big part of why they’re rich.
Counter intuitive, dead people don’t pay bills. You’d think they would ensure alive people who could be saddled with medical debt forever, thus an income stream. If i were a greedy business, I’d do it like that.
Healthy people don’t pay bills either, they try to aim for a balance between almost dying and actually dead.
“A patient cured is a custumer lost”
insurance also depends on healthy people that never uses thier insurance, hence thats why they price out older and chronically ill people.
CMS didn’t pick up on this? What are the damn inspections for if they don’t suss out shit like this.
Didn’t CMS get gutted?
Just one more of those super fucking important agencies that apparently nobody in the US knows or cares about.
seen it when it was first being posted like 2 years ago on a sub, when user was frustrated by the lack of private physicians in her area for her child, one user said it was due to private equity and teledoc companies.
Maybe if hospitals would stop being sponsored by Jesus and healing by faith bullshit, they might be able to actually save people.
“WELCOME TO OUR MOTHER OF THE HOLY LORD JESUS CHRIST BAPTIST HOSPITAL, how would you like us to pray away your gaping wound today?”
The real death panels were the friends we made along the way… Er…
