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This may sound radical, but it is not. An analysis of all urban acute care hospitals in the United States found that the most significant Favoring Profitable ProgramsInstead of poorly paid but vital services, such as psychiatric care, for-profit hospitals were found to be performing C-sections for more money than vaginal births. More frequently More than a non-profit organization

Nonprofits also fall short in other areas: investigation go through New York time Many nonprofit hospitals have been found to routinely engage in predatory billing practices at the expense of their charitable mission. Last year, a nonprofit hospital where I worked in New Mexico Fired all the emergency room doctors And brought in a for-profit company that was partly owned by a private equity firm to replace us.

Private equity’s entry into health care is just the latest and most extreme manifestation of a long-standing structure. Among the board members of top academic medical centers, Less than 15% have a healthcare background. Most have worked in investment banking or real estate. They speak the language of finance and business and have never been around patients. The system prioritizes revenue because the leaders we select are programmed based on what they know. A team of social scientists, writing exist The New England Journal of Medicine, This is called the “financialization” of health care, whereby health care services are “transformed into marketable and tradable assets from which the financial sector can accumulate capital.” American College of Physicians“What many imagine as a lean, market-based system” is in fact “increasingly profit-oriented.”