Patients are more likely to fall, get new infections, or experience other forms of harm during their stay in a hospital after it is acquired by a private equity firm, according to a new study led by researchers at Harvard Medical School.
    • mkhopper@lemmy.world
      11·
      6 months ago

      Greed.

      No, no. Unabashed greed.

      No, take it all the way. Fuck the little people to support my unabashed greed.

    • prole@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      6 months ago

      It’s called “rent seeking.” Even if some ya sci-fi author tried to coin a new term, there is nothing new about this type of behavior.

    • rockerface@lemm.ee
      11·
      6 months ago

      hmm, if we follow the example like “desertification”, how about “shittification”?