Hospital Staff See UHC CEO Shooting as Wake-Up Call for Violence Reform

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3. "Healthcare" is an "industry"

with patients, health workers, and "insurance" (and that whole administrative nightmare).

People talk about the "Military Industrial Complex" and the "Prison Industrial Complex" - well the same exists for "healthcare", whether you are talking about vulture capitalist buyouts of hospitals or pharmacies that cut deals with Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs) that may end up with higher costs for prescriptions.

The losers are the consumers and the workers - particularly when the consumer or patient is pissed off at the care and cost of it - the workers are in the "direct line of attack".