Doctors Unionize as Healthcare Services Are Consolidated into Corporate Systems: PBS

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- PBS News Hour, Jan. 1, 2024.

As recently as the early 80s, about three of every four doctors in the U.S. worked for themselves, owning small clinics.

Today, some 75% of physicians are employees of hospital systems or large corporate entities. Some worry the trend is leading to diminished quality of care and is one reason doctors at a large Midwestern health provider decided to unionize. - Fred de Sam Lazaro reports.

[Skittles]

1. Robin Cook sounded the alarm about these money-grubbing corporations in his books

it's very disturbing

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4. The predators have taken control of many sectors in 40 yrs

and are still going strong. The devouring has to stop somehow.

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2. Union Yes NT

[mitch96]

3. "Doctors Unionize"... oh how the tune changes when it effects YOU!! Doc's would always give me shit about

organizing employees at our hospital. "How could you do this to YOUR patients"
"Think of your patients welfare, your job is to HELP them"
"You are doing a DISSERVICE to your community"
Now the shoe is on the other foot, their tune changes... I have also noticed the indignation when they realize they are "just employees" to the corporate suits upstairs.. It must be disheartening to think that what you do is no longer a profession, what you do is just a cog in the corporate wheel.
HA join the club..
I've always said employees don't need a Union if the company just treats you fair and does the next right thing.. But no, it's all about the money, keeping the investors happy and getting that FAT bonus at the end of the year..uff
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[appalachiablue]

5. Well said, now that it's their turn. See the light when it's self interest.

Scorn for the "Investor Class" is well earned.

-> I have also noticed the indignation when they realize they are "just employees" to the corporate suits upstairs.. It must be disheartening to think that what you do is no longer a profession, what you do is just a cog in the corporate wheel.
HA join the club..

[DC77]

6. Amen

Only in America. I used to work for a medical facilities design firm. Have met many doctors, some good, some bad. I am talking about their character not their clinical reputation. Some are money hungry, can I convert the still-used lunch room into a patient room to maximize profit (eww, gross), while some are more concerned with providing spaces offering maximum patient value.

How the tables turn.

Ohh, and I got sick of the trope “I am going to move to another state if my liability insurance rates don’t go down.” They never move.