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Health Care Systems Should Not Be Run For Profit, But Rather For People's Health

Josh Freeman | Medicine and Social Justice | February 2, 2014

I wrote in a recent blog [...] that our health care system ”…is a parallel to our financial services industry: private enterprise is given a license to make money from everyone, and the government finances it. The only difference is that for financial services, the government steps in to bail them out only after they have already stolen all our money, while in health services the profit margin is built in from the start.” [...] Read More »

Nurses Charge Hospital Giant Censors Public Right To Know About Price Gouging As Billboards Pulled

Press Release | National Nurses United | May 16, 2014

The nation’s largest organization of nurses today accused corporate hospital giant Community Health Systems (CHS) with suppressing free speech and censoring patients’ right to know about its pricing practices by pressuring a billboard company to pull down billboards warning the public about high charges at CHS hospitals.

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