Go up too. https://hms.harvard.edu/news/deaths-rose-emergency-rooms-aft...
Part of the problem of modern society is that statistical murder of thousands is treated as less of a crime than a normal murder of one person.
The doctors are trying to help people, the execs are being greedy while doing it. Leadership doesn’t get the benefit of the doubt at this point.
The study you linked concerns whether the hospital is owned by a nonprofit or by a private equity group.
The question in this study is whether physicians work for their own practice or for the hospital directly, regardless of the ownership of the hospital.
If the US had a simpler billing/insurance system (or these extractive middlemen were removed entirely), this wouldn't be happening to the same extent.
Imagine if every restaurant went to being owned by McDonald’s, and the reason we’re told for it is “credit card payment systems are so complicated!”
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