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Private equity acquisition of hospitals have led to an increase in deaths among emergency department patients receiving Medicare, according to a recent study published in Annals of Internal Medicine.
Limits on travel and visa appointments have delayed or prevented foreign doctors from entering the country for jobs set to begin in weeks. New doctors from other countries account for one in six medical residents at U.S. teaching hospitals.
Mothers were reported after they were given medications used routinely for pain or in epidurals, to reduce anxiety or to manage blood pressure during cesarean sections.
For-profit hospitals jacking up prices matches a similar story of predatory corporate practices on grocery costs and housing prices. It's not market supply and demand. Corporate giants have figured out how to rip people off more effectively.
Looking at American health care is an exercise in despair, with health conglomerates engaged in killing people for profit, with endless 10-15 percent increases in annual premiums, and with judges and policymakers not even knowing where to start.
Corporate media fail to report that Israel's war on hospitals has nothing to do with Hamas.
The growing solidarity between unions and the LGBTQ+ community is key component of the revitalization of the labor movement.
92,000 employees. Revenue of roughly $26 billion. But its flagship hospital recently made headlines for being the least charitable non-profit hospital in the country.
California’s hospitals struggle once more to find beds for desperate patients. In Los Angeles County, the average number of available hospital beds slipped to its lowest level since the pandemic began.
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