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I grew up in a multi-generational medical family. My father was an internationally recognized anesthesiologist, my mother was a nurse, two of my great aunts were nurses who founded national organizations, two uncles were physicians, and it all traced back generations. Nurses were employees of medical corporations, universities, and foundations. Physicians were self-employed or worked in groups, a kind of partnership. That, as this article describes, is all changing. The entire medical system is now being owned by investment groups and oligarchs. About a third of the emergency rooms in the United States aren’t even owned by the hospitals where they are located. They are owned by investment groups and corporations. America has the worst healthcare system in the developed world, and the health data outcome shows how bad it actually is. Americans are less healthy, and die years younger than nations with universal birthright single payer systems. And, thanks to the Republican Party, it is all about to get much worse.
