Corporate-owned hospitals fleece American taxpayers again — Army Corps of Engineers California hospitals story

© 2021 Peter Free

 

02 January 2021

 

 

Guess who pays for the following form of corporate hospital malfeasance

 

From KTLA television and the Los Angeles Times:

 

 

In a stark reminder of how overstretched hospital care has become across Los Angeles, the Army Corps of Engineers plans to send crews to the region to upgrade the oxygen-delivery systems at a handful of aging hospitals.

 

Oxygen supply shortages bedevil SoCal hospitals already overwhelmed by COVID-19 patients

News of the deployment comes five days after several L.A. County hospitals declared internal disasters and temporarily turned away all ambulance traffic because their internal oxygen systems began to buckle beneath the high demand of air flow needed by patients packed into COVID-19 wards.

 

Dr. Christina Ghaly, L.A. County health services director, said that the buildings’ old pipes couldn’t maintain sufficient pressure and, at times, started to freeze. In a scramble, Ghaly said, some hospitals were forced to move patients to lower floors, because it’s easier to deliver oxygen there without needing pressure to push it up to higher floors.

 

Another oxygen-related problem — the chronic shortage of portable tanks — has also hampered hospitals abilities in recent days, county officials said. To discharge recovering patients as quickly as possible and free up space for other, sicker patients, hospitals often send patients home with oxygen tanks.

 

© 2020 Los Angeles Times, Army Corps of Engineers will assess and upgrade oxygen-delivery systems at several L.A. County hospitals, KTLA.com (01 January 2021)

 

 

In short . . .

 

. . . the Army Corps of Engineers will competently swoop in, fix these corporations' infrastructural negligence, and you and I will be paying for most of it — to those same scheming Fat Cats' benefit.

 

And, while pondering this, guess how huge these hospitals' bills to their patients will be.

 

It is always about slicing ordinary folk to blood-suck corporatism's loot.

 

 

The moral? — In the United States, there is never a price to pay for Parasitic Capitalism's murder of people and ethical sense

 

Rampaging avarice spreads its filth outward to burden innocents far and wide.

 

For perspective, recall that California is — by lucre-sucking design — just two states up from having worst ICU bed to population ratio in the United States.

 

In contemplating this quantitative tidbit, consider the fact that — if the Golden State were its own country — it would (reportedly) be ranked as the fifth largest economy in the world.

 

One can reliably deduce that the act of Government-assisted pillaging — so as to increase Corporate wealth — has nothing to do with serving humanity or ethics-based propriety. Trickle-down is bullshit. And always has been.