One of the real problems with Ebola and U.S. hospitals is

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44. There are plenty of places where the top

spots are not occupied by MBA bean counters, but health care professionals, usually doctors, who think like MBA bean counters instead of using the ethical precepts and dictates of their profession. They are beholden to their corporate managers and act like it. That is almost worse than just being an MBA bean counter, frankly, because these fuckers know better and don't care, all they care about is money. They're like the "doctors" who work for insurance companies "reviewing" claims and denying them simply because they're told to do so to maximize profits for their employer. Linda Peno, the doctor who wrote "Damaged Care" and is now an anti-HMO, anti-for-profit-health-care activist, knows that all too well as a former medical reviewer for insurance companies.

In my rural state alone, there are several doctors who took a leave of absence from their profession so that they could earn an MBA focusing on "health care management", and they now help to run one of the two major health care monopolies in the state. Never mind that the ethical precepts of the medical profession have little to do with the greedy demands of for-profit health care.