The increased deaths in emergency departments at private equity-owned hospitals are most likely the result of reduced staffing levels, researchers say.

Not surprised

      • chiliedogg@lemmy.world
        3·
        5 days ago

        We have the depraved indifference homicide rule. It’s when someone knowingly acts with such disregard for human life that it is likely their action will result in the death of others that the indifference to life essentially counts as intent to kill. It’s generally considered 2nd degree murder.

        A real life example was the Sclitterbahn Waterpark in Kansas City. They had a dangerous waterside that had injured several people and was clearly too dangerous to operate. The company paid off the injured people to keep them quiet, and then, in August 2016, a child was decapitated by the ride.

        The CEO was charged with 2nd degree murder.

        Unfortunately, misleading information was provided to the grand jury by the AG, so the judge was forced to dismiss the case. The AG also charged the designers and engineers of the ride with murder, and introduced evidence to the grand jury in all cases (including the CEO) that the ride didn’t meet Kansas safety standards and code, witbout mentioning that the code had been updated after the accident and that it did meet engineering and design standards at the time of construction.

        If they’d just gone after the CEO and stuck to facts, the charges would have stuck. But as it was, the judge had to throw out the grand jury decision.

    • chisel@piefed.socialEnglish
      13·
      5 days ago

      Erhm, gubbermint unhealthcare has DEATH PANELS where they KILL YOU!!! I much prefer my profit-driven health utopia. It’s much more simpler, no panels required!

      flow chart of sexy profit driven health care system. Has one question with one outcome. Will it cost money? The only path, yes, leads to death.

      Fuck yes, bleed my dry insurance-senpai. Take my father’s heart and buy a chair for your 100th yacht. CEO shinigami-san I wuv you owo. 🤤

        • chisel@piefed.socialEnglish
          1·
          5 days ago

          That’s the beauty of it! The stupid overreaching big-government law says real doctors need to review appeals and review notes and consider circumstances. But that’s fuxkings stupud when a single line of code can deny claims and appeals at 1000x the speed and send EVEN MORE money to daddy’s dragon den which will then trickle down directly into MY POCKETS.

          I took the liberty of writing my own hyper-advance AI to handle the task. It should only need 10 racks of GPUs to run.

          public static void reviewClaim(Claim wasteOfMoney) {
  if (wasteOfMoney.isNotCovered()) {
    wasteOfMoney.deny();
  } else {
    wasteOfMoney.deny();
  }
}
  • very_well_lost@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    5 days ago

    Yeah, but the 401Ks of those dead patients went up a by few percent, so… if you think about it, they’ve already been compensated for their wrongful deaths!