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The Healthcare Death Loop
The podcast discusses the trolley problem as a metaphor for the US for-profit healthcare system. It argues that the system's profit motive incentivises the denial of care, leading to preventable deaths. The author contends that this is not accidental but a structural feature, comparing the CEOs of healthcare companies to individuals repeatedly choosing to sacrifice lives for profit. The text concludes by advocating for a single-payer healthcare system to remove the profit motive and break the cycle of death. This systemic issue, Bry asserts, is the root cause of the problem, not individual…
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