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Summary

The Lown Institute’s 2024 Shkreli Awards highlighted 10 instances of egregious healthcare profiteering.

Winners included UnitedHealth for pressuring doctors to inflate medical coding and Steward Health Care for prioritizing profits over patient care, leading to bankruptcy and reduced healthcare access.

Other offenders included Zynex Medical's fraudulent billing for supplies, Memorial Medical Center’s alleged upfront payment demands for cancer treatment, and Medicare’s mass billing for urinary catheters.

The awards aim to expose systemic dysfunction and push for reform in the profit-driven U.S. healthcare industry.

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[-] jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 5 points 10 hours ago

When player one fails...

😎 sometimes you gotta give player two a chance.

[-] Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 33 points 19 hours ago

Stop calling it fuckin healthcare.

[-] Cephalotrocity@biglemmowski.win 84 points 22 hours ago
[-] ZeroCool@slrpnk.net 57 points 21 hours ago

and push for reform in the profit-driven U.S. healthcare industry.

There’s nothing to reform. We don’t have a healthcare system we have a health insurance system, which is operating exactly as intended. The only solution is to burn the whole fucking thing down and start over.

[-] A_A@lemmy.world 41 points 21 hours ago

USA would benefit so much from becoming the Southern Canadian province.

[-] ZeroCool@slrpnk.net 24 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

Sign me up! We get healthcare, and Canada can finally end its 30+ year Stanley Cup drought. Turning the US into Southern Canada is the only way either scenario is going to happen at this point. Everybody wins!

[-] medgremlin@midwest.social 8 points 19 hours ago

Hey now....South Canada already refers to Minnesota. Y'all can get your own new nickname.

[-] jballs@sh.itjust.works 3 points 15 hours ago

Which is weird, since a lot of Minnesota is north of most of the population of Canada.

[-] medgremlin@midwest.social 2 points 10 hours ago

I'm pretty sure the Twin Cities metro is north of Toronto as well which would mean most of the population of Minnesota is north of most of the population of Canada.

[-] whostosay@lemmy.world 3 points 18 hours ago
[-] ZeroCool@slrpnk.net 2 points 14 hours ago

Yep, the last time a Canadian team won the Stanley Cup Final was in 1993 when the Montreal Canadiens beat the LA Kings

[-] whostosay@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

Damn. I was born close to that year. I even knew that date and was like "pfffft that's not 30 years ago"

[-] Artyom@lemm.ee 3 points 20 hours ago

LAS CRUCES LET'S GOOOOO!!! NUMBER 5!!!

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