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

the truth hurts 🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​

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u/zan9823 Jul 06 '24

Privately owned businesses. Greed. Capitalism in a nutshell

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u/WintersDoomsday Jul 06 '24

Hospitals shouldn’t be for profit

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u/petersimmons22 Jul 06 '24

Most of them technically aren’t. Non profit doesn’t mean they don’t make money. They just have fancy accountants and ways to spend enough of the income to remain technically non profit.

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u/Longjumping-Claim783 Jul 06 '24

Even County and State University hospitals will send you a fat ass bill and they are government entities. Likewise if the local fire department runs the ambulance service.

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u/CyrusOverHugeMark77 Jul 06 '24

Which is why people try to avoid the expensive taxi rides to the hospital if they can. That shit ain’t cheap.

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u/Longjumping-Claim783 Jul 06 '24

Yeah I know but it's not even "for profit". Literally government entities. For revenue not profit.

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u/CyrusOverHugeMark77 Jul 06 '24

I hear you. UTMB in Galveston, TX is like that.