“In America's bizarre, worst-in-class, world-beatingly expensive privatized health care system, even public health provision (like Medicare) is outsourced to the private sector. Lincare has monopolized oxygen, a famously very important molecule for human survival, and if it were disqualified from serving Medicare, large numbers of Americans would literally asphyxiate.”
— @pluralistic summarizing today’s damning article from @ProPublica
https://www.propublica.org/article/lincare-medicare-lawsuit-settlements-oxygen-equipment
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From the point of view of corporate America, surely it's best in class.
It's their system and as long as it remains so, it's primary purpose will be to generate profit.
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