My grandmother had a heart attack the other day and had to be brought to the emergency room. My mother went to visit her today and told me that the hallways were full of ER patients. While I wasn’t there to see for myself, you would think this kind of thing would only happen after a natural disaster or some other kind of mass casualty event.
Why were the hallways stuffed with patients without their own rooms? It turns out that, during the past few years, at least 5 hospitals within the broader area had shut down, with no new ones were built to replace them. The profit motive has driven the healthcare administrator ghouls to give up even the pretense that they’re able to offer timely care.
Death to Amerikkka!
Tons and tons of nurses and other staff got forced out during COVID and never got replaced. Doctor recruitment is controlled by a cartel that keeps the number artificially low. Hospitals and entire care networks are all at risk of being bought out by private equity and getting their copper wiring stripped out at any moment. And yet despite all of this, the healthcare worker segment is the one segment in the job market that is growing - or at least it was last year, we’ll see how it reacts to stripping away hundreds of billions of Medicaid dollars.