💯! Private health care far too often = poorer health outcomes for patients.
Paired with a complete lack of transparency & accountability to the public, privatization would spell disaster. We need to provide the best possible care, which means investing in our PUBLIC system.
You may be reading that privatization is the only hope for healthcare. The latest data should give you some pause.
A new Harvard study showed that after a hospital is acquired by private equity, patients had a 25 percent increase in complications such as falls or new infections