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It's not "egar to save money". It's "egar to boost profits".

My dad was tortured to death for insurance money in 2021. I passed the statute of limitations to sue, because no lawyer would go after the hospital. They just pay them off. This country is shit.

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What about suing the hospital administration civilly?

What else is new. One would think there would be regulations and laws where shit like this was not possible. What horseshit.

Exactly! Nobody in these companies are ever in jeopardy of losing their wealth or assets. This is why all these illegalities are rampant in corporations, LLC

Heartbreaking story and shows what is wrong with private healthcare. I am sorry Americans cannot rely on a proper health care system that serves all equally and equally well. So much of the EU (and that does not include UK) and Canada do have such systems.

A rock Scott hospital?

What I would like to know is when is someone going to challenge the SCOTUS and go after each of the persons who pocketed large sums of money from this mess.

Since when was being broke a defence against lawsuits?

For profit medicine is a terrible idea

Doc here. Healthcare should never be for profit, aligned in any way with unregulated capitalism. Greedy lying lawyers don’t help.They take most of any settlement. Tell patients to sue whether or not there was actually malpractice. We could copy any truly evolved country and have great care for all!

I read that Samuel S. Lee was the CEO/President/Chairman of the Board. Sue him and the Board members personally; I could be wrong, but I doubt if any of them are bankrupt.

Murica the great, eh?

Welcome to the "glorious" US of A, the country where heath-care is a business and not a right...

So let me guess. PE came in and extracted all value out everything they could. The people running the corp knew they weren’t following the law and did what they did anyway, and somehow - somehow - a judge in the US can’t figure out how to reimburse this widow. Fuck capitalism.

So of coarse it’s senior corporate officers are now in jail for breaking the law right? …….. right?

I’d want to tract down their former CEO and punish them. Personally. The law is now firmly against the average American

so a department for consumer protectionism just doesnt exist in the US? Is it really just the worlds biggest playground for Moguls and enterpreneurs, where citizens are nothing more than lab rats? Holy fucking Christ, Hollywood really played us like a fiddle growing up. F that shithole

Can’t they serve time if they can’t pay?

Jail time for the executives!

Why are doctors able to use the company as a legal shield?

Reads like a Grisham novel...

Sue the individual officers of the company

This is the problem! Any owner, CEO or shareholders of any corporation or LLC should absolutely have their assets on the line to be taken if any that company is involved in any illegality. All this shit would end.

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What a complete and utter surprise. Radical opinion: healthcare should never be for profit.

How can a person with a car or house loan being insured is strictly regulated, but a hospital or any medical facility not having the proper insurance is like ahhh no big deal! WTAF

This exemplifies why more regulation of healthcare providers is required. Though a much better idea, would of course be, an end to for profit healthcare!

F@ck any hospital run for profit... Profits on pain, illness,and vulnerability are unconscionable

Funny how they don't have money but average people are stripped of everything to pay off debts.

We all have to buy liability insurance for our cars. Why don't hospitals don't have to do this?

Everything that is wrong with both US healthcare and the US system of ambulance chasing - all in one headline.

Are the people who failed to do that not liable then?

how do we get back to non-profit hospitals?

Nope. All corporations and LLC owners, ceos and shareholders are all protected except owners of very small businesses

So tired of feeling like I'm living in a Dickens novel.

This is fucking disgusting.

Sounds like what IQ47 did with his bankruptcies.

Crazy

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This is when it's appropriate to go after the former executives for criminal liability.

Why? Sue the fucking owners, the investors, sue whoever made that decision. Sue the city that had no oversight.

Horrendous

good busyness practices never really give a shit about the humans in the long run. yay capitalism!

Insurance is to protect a company's assets. Not their customers wellbeing. If you have no assets, insurance is financially pointless.

The executives who made these choices need to be personally liable for them. Stock holders too. This corporate veil needs a hell of a lot more piercing.

Of course they didn't fund something that could help their patients. Is anyone really surprised?

America is not the greatest nation on earth that it’s banged on about for years, terrible healthcare for working people, and the citizens elected a criminal as their president, who is the dumbest president in the world.

Of course she can. She can win in court and execute her judgment by taking as much of their property as she needs to fulfill what they owe her through a Sheriff's sale. I used to be a debt collections paralegal. Piece of cake.

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That seems very evil.

Make the board and CEO pay then! We know someone made big money from the venture.

When you privatise anything, it is run purely for profit & nothing else 👎🤨

Time for legislation allowing people to sue the private equity firm owners for this bullshit. We know exactly which assholes created this cesspool and they should be liable for the death and destruction they created

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It's troubling to hear that a family's pursuit of justice might be hindered by a hospital's financial struggles, it's even more disturbing that the system allows institutions to risk leaving victims without recourse simply because they don't properly prepare for worst-case scenarios.

Stop making hospitals, CEO's, shareholders rich. Bring national healthcare to USA, bring back the Public Good (work for a more perfect union), not private good. USA is becoming a commodity. USA is turning into a private equity hedge fund for the oligarchs, buying/selling privatizing everything

Surely people have to be arrested for this

Settle the strike

Fix Mangled Care!!!

You’d think the DA would want to know that…

This is why regulation and oversight are critical.

The words “hospital” and “for profit” should never be in one sentence, unless that “never” is between them! But of course the neo-liberalism and free-market zealots are there to profit exactly from the human suffering.

See? Corporations are not people.

Of course, try suing a Cuban hospital…

We all know the solution now.

And this is why we need to remove the absolute immunity for corporate boards of directors— a CEO and CFO made this decision and they walk away with their assets intact and no responsibility for their actions. We need to haul their assets and to court and give em a good asset whipping

Healthcare should not be a for-profit business. Same for prisons

Good luck finding lawyers that will sue for malpractice. The government wanted to be the victim apparently. Texas limits what an individual can gain but the government decides to take the loot for a family's pain and suffering @scotusblog.com @splcenter.org @propublica.org @hhsofficial.bsky.social

God bless capitalism

Investor-Owned for profit hospitals need to end. They should be replaced with mutual-owned NPO hospitals.

And trump wants to turn all USA Medical Care over to For-Profit Hospitals and Privately Owned Insurance Companies!

They can't not have malpractice insurance. Someone in the govts is not doing their jobs.

For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. - Romans 6:23 KJV

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So the CEO and/or owners should all get life in prison with no chance of parole or pardons.

Prospect ruined a few Connecticut hospitals. What a horrible company

Single payer nonprofit system is the minimum for 2028.

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Honestly, we should regulate self insured firm just like insurance companies

Excellent point, I had thought this was already done Wrap em all up, multiple failures from multiple angles The failure of all of these sectors with this widow is a failure to all of us, every one, as well as to themselves as we all rely (& pay into via tax/etc) on healthcare, systems & eachother

Luigi was righteous & justified.

We have got to get rid of private healthcare, everything is for profit and the patients be dammed, we are just a dollar sign.

This is why public services should never be in ‘for profit’ hands.

Hospital are pretty much self-regulated and monitored and that should change. Just like the blood industry change via a court order and was put under the and regulated by the FDA. What became of that situation was a safter and well-regulated blood supply for patients.