Cary Gross-Professor of medicine at Yale School of Medicine: “Some might say these are for-profit companies, so their goal is to make a profit, but health care is a right, not a privilege. You can choose when to buy a car. You can’t choose to have a heart attack."
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There is no policy requiring healthcare corporations to reinvest profits into wages, research, or patient care—and that’s a problem. A system that prioritizes shareholder payouts directly drives up the cost of care, which especially impacts lower-income Americans.
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Healthcare corporations receiving public funds NEED to start enduring a lot more regulation. This is only fair when we consider how other industires are regulated that recieve government support.
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www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
Yale School of Medicine shows that on average for large US healthcare corporations that, 95% of their net income is spent on shareholder payouts over the past 2 decades. What does this say about the priorities of these corporations?
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research-archive.org/index.php/ra.... Great source for understanding the framework of our healthcare systems and how they inherently reward revenue generation over patient outcomes (basically how this is a system set up to fail because we treat health as a commodity)
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Healthcare should be a human right. Twenty-six million Americans uninsured. 1 in 4 insured Americans still struggle to afford care—meaning most of us know someone w/o coverage. When low income individuals can't afford the hospital w/o insurance-many simply go untreated
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Relative to the size of each respective countries economy, the United States is unlike the others. Americans pay almost twice as much on healthcare per person compared to other high income nations. Reform is VITAL.
Data from OECD Health Statistics Database:
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