Hospitals are probably the worst example you could pick, because their true purpose is to make sure trained, able bodied workers don’t die after serious injuries or illnesses and keep the value extraction going for national or domestically located capital, which is where the profit incentive is located. It’s not altruism, they have a specific function.
It gets grim and you can see this clearly when it comes to care for older people, who for example had way more deaths than younger people during covid. Their organisms are weaker, sure, but not an insignificant part of it had to do with negligence that often seemed deliberate - lots of cases from where I’m from (lost my grandma who was still relatively healthy precisely due to this), and there are many, many similar stories if you go digging for them. After all, the elderly are just a pure expense for the state who are no longer able to be used for value extraction, it makes sense.
And ofc, their purpose becomes much more apparent once you’re looking at privatization.
It reminds me of how nursing homes are operated. I know so many people whose grandparents’ homes got sold to pay for their nursing home bills. My grandma went into a nursing home with a need for PT, but otherwise fully independent. She was supposed to get out in like a month. They just kept lengthening her stay. Turns out she got there, they almost immediately declared her bed bound, and put her into a room alone. By the time we pulled her out because they were trying to admit her indefinitely, she could barely talk and she never walked again. I don’t think she was even getting her PT. But she gained her ability to talk back and boy did she have some shit to say about that place.
Hospitals are probably the worst example you could pick, because their true purpose is to make sure trained, able bodied workers don’t die after serious injuries or illnesses and keep the value extraction going for national or domestically located capital, which is where the profit incentive is located. It’s not altruism, they have a specific function.
It gets grim and you can see this clearly when it comes to care for older people, who for example had way more deaths than younger people during covid. Their organisms are weaker, sure, but not an insignificant part of it had to do with negligence that often seemed deliberate - lots of cases from where I’m from (lost my grandma who was still relatively healthy precisely due to this), and there are many, many similar stories if you go digging for them. After all, the elderly are just a pure expense for the state who are no longer able to be used for value extraction, it makes sense.
And ofc, their purpose becomes much more apparent once you’re looking at privatization.
https://www.pcint.org/03_LP/538/538_01_monde-apres.htm a text in French (run it through a translator it’s fine) that does talk precisely about this if anyone is interested
It reminds me of how nursing homes are operated. I know so many people whose grandparents’ homes got sold to pay for their nursing home bills. My grandma went into a nursing home with a need for PT, but otherwise fully independent. She was supposed to get out in like a month. They just kept lengthening her stay. Turns out she got there, they almost immediately declared her bed bound, and put her into a room alone. By the time we pulled her out because they were trying to admit her indefinitely, she could barely talk and she never walked again. I don’t think she was even getting her PT. But she gained her ability to talk back and boy did she have some shit to say about that place.