Monopolistic practice in the provision of dialysis
The medical industrial complex using taxpayer money while deprioritizing quality of care
https://open.substack.com/pub/mattstoller/p/the-dirty-business-of-clean-blood?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=1k5et
'Depending on how you do the math, that’s an extra 55,000 people dying in America who otherwise wouldn’t, purely based on the way we do dialysis'
Matt Stoller article is an excellent and fascinating read. I truly hope people take a look. It is an exact example of the medical industrial complex - with an emphasis here on dialysis which is a Medicare for all type and fully taxpayer funded service thanks back to Nixon - still being able to totally control access, costs, quality and patient preference.
And it does so through total monopolistiv practices which not only contradicts patient care but, also, the premise of capitalism and the free market. And, largely, all Medicare needs to do is formally disallow the use of non-competes for physicians who work for (the two major) dialysis companies
A neighbor needed dialysis and I was astonished at how hard it was for them. And how would someone of lesser means handle it?