Florida to allow doctors to perform C-sections outside hospitals

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Last edited Mon May 27, 2024, 05:31 AM - Edit history (3)

Fuck’s sake. 🤦‍♂️

OK, as a healthcare professional, I’m going to tackle this one piece at a time.

First, when has private equity EVER been good for the consumer? Bottom line, profits, which have to be increasing year over year, are ALL that fucking well matter to investment buzzards and bean counters. Patients and employees are dead fucking last and it’s a competition to see who these guys hate more. As a close example for what these for-profit bastards will do, look at the Medicare fraud committed by Columbia/HCA when Rick Scott (Q-Dickhead) was running the show. And here are stories about a hospital that HCA purchased in western NC just a few years ago: HCA pruned staff, reaped profits. The feds have popped HCA’s Mission Hospital for violating emergency treatment standards (Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act). This happens at many other hospitals they own, too. And the NC Attorney General has been joined by Buncombe County in his lawsuit against HCA Mission Health for failure to meet quality and access agreements it made with the North Carolina in order to secure its (no bid) purchase in 2019.

Second, this is asking…no…begging for patient disasters and deaths. When some incompetent fuckstick screws up and a woman bleeds to death or is severely injured, who pays? Not the company. I guarantee you they will have, buried somewhere in the paperwork you sign, a max liability (this happened to my uncle and private orthopedic surgery outfit. He’s crippled and all he got, after fees is about $1.5 million. That won’t cover his medical expenses going forward, lost income, etc.). No lawyer can help you because you signed the paperwork acknowledging the max liability payout and you’ll be told that it’s not the fault of the medical provider that you didn’t read all 9000 lines of legalese that are printed in a 1 point* size font. Not that you’d have even understood the legalese even if it was printed in an 84 point, though.

Goddamn, this is stupid.

*I’m being sarcastic here…but only slightly.