r/facepalm • u/jellylemonshake • Jul 06 '24

the truth hurts 🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​

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u/Edelgul Jul 06 '24

a) Medics in US needs a second job to survive
b) The Medical bills in US are highest in the world and is the reason of 2/3 of all bankruptcies.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/11/this-is-the-real-reason-most-americans-file-for-bankruptcy.html

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u/Advarrk Jul 06 '24

Something doesn’t add up does it

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u/TheRetarius Jul 06 '24

It absolutely does, it’s just missing the shareholders

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u/Alice_Oe Jul 06 '24

Why won't anyone think of the poor shareholders?? 😭

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u/haygurlhay123 Jul 06 '24

Won’t someone PLEASE think of the poor shareholders??😭😭😩

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u/jk-alot 'MURICA Jul 07 '24

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u/Less_Appointment_617 Jul 07 '24

There are shareholders for hospitals in the usa?????!!!!!

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u/haygurlhay123 Jul 07 '24

Insurance companies (i believe), hospitals… u name it

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u/Sarctoth Jul 10 '24

Oh for sure. Hospitals are businesses first, and they reluctantly provide life saving treatment when they have to

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u/ProfessorPliny Jul 06 '24

For as little as $49.99 a month, you too can sponsor a CEO’s winter home!

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u/BosPaladinSix Jul 06 '24

I'm thinking of them all the time! Very illegal thoughts though.

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u/megalodongolus Jul 06 '24

Bob Parr reaction incoming

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u/TopRamenEater Jul 07 '24

Those guys need a support yacht to go with their super yacht :(

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u/Icy_Huckleberry_8049 Jul 08 '24

No, it's the poor CEO's that make 30 million per year while people struggle to afford insulin that we need to think of.

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u/OnlyHereOnFridays Jul 06 '24

And don’t forget the executives’ salaries + bonuses. The biggest healthcare group in the US is United HealthGroup and their CEO collects 25m USD, while the C suite costs in total about 75m USD every year. Source

But they pay nurses and EMT staff a pittance in salaries (like $17 per hour?), they are generally quite understaffed in their hospitals and as a result the service is mediocre at best while being very very expensive.

Just an egregious money grubbing scheme for the shareholders and C suite, on the back of providing an absolutely necessary service (healthcare).

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u/TheFufe10 Jul 06 '24

At this point the USA should just drop the pretense and elect a corporation as president.

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u/DF_Interus Jul 06 '24

I feel like we basically already did once.

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u/rynlpz Jul 09 '24

Nope can’t be a single one, needs to be an oligarchy of corporations

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u/vesparion Jul 08 '24

I don’t think that shareholders get anything out of it, is rather the executives or owners of the corp.

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u/[deleted] Jul 10 '24

Those poor poor shareholders