Did you know that almost a quarter of emergency rooms in the US are now owned by private equity firms? Neither do most people – but it’s true. Sometimes even on the umbrella of a “not-for-profit” system, the emergency care unit must turn a proft or die – and decisions are made not based on health care but on profitability.
Read more about it in this report from VOX:
The profit-obsessed monster destroying American emergency rooms
