Businesses choosing health care

Most US doctors are now employees of businesses, in many cases very large private-equity exploitationist businesses. And these businesses decide whether a patient gets to see a doctor at all.

The article's main topic is that some of the MD employees are responding to this by unionizing. I applaud that — but that won't necessarily help the patients.

It may not help the doctors at the deep level, because the corporate power that stops doctors form treating patients properly is unbearable to many of them. They quit, or they become mentally ill, and some commit suicide.

We need to restore management by people committed to medicine rather than profit, and likewise break up the large chains. But how?

One way is to establish a national medical system that will cut the profit out and thus provide medical treatment to everyone.