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		<title>Ccarlsson at 05:45, 2 February 2022</title>
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		<updated>2022-02-02T05:45:29Z</updated>

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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Now and then we hear that the city is planning to shut down SFGH or LHH completely, or else turn their operation over to a “non-profit” corporation. County hospitals are being closed all over the country; people who can’t afford private hospitals are being denied care. Nine county hospitals have already been shut down in California and Chope Hospital in San Mateo County is likely to close soon. With a non-profit corporation, the city would make one contribution to SFGH each year. If the hospital couldn’t make it on its own, they would have to charge patients higher fees, cut back services or lay off workers. The city would no longer be responsible for health care.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Now and then we hear that the city is planning to shut down SFGH or LHH completely, or else turn their operation over to a “non-profit” corporation. County hospitals are being closed all over the country; people who can’t afford private hospitals are being denied care. Nine county hospitals have already been shut down in California and Chope Hospital in San Mateo County is likely to close soon. With a non-profit corporation, the city would make one contribution to SFGH each year. If the hospital couldn’t make it on its own, they would have to charge patients higher fees, cut back services or lay off workers. The city would no longer be responsible for health care.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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		<author><name>Ccarlsson</name></author>
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		<title>Ccarlsson at 05:44, 2 February 2022</title>
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		<updated>2022-02-02T05:44:08Z</updated>

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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Health care for working people in this country is mainly designed to keep people patched up enough to keep working. Since the only time we’re useful to the people who own and rule this country is the years when we’re working and making profits for them, the health system takes just enough care of our diseases and accidents to keep us at work. If we’re unemployed or on welfare, we get even less. Never is extra time or attention spent on preventive medicine or on our emotional or social problems. There’s just no profit in these areas. And once we’re too old or too messed up to work, we’re thrown on the scrap heap for good. Hospitals like Laguna Honda are places for old people, paraplegics and mental “defectives”—people from whom the owners and rulers of this country have squeezed every drop of work and profits.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Health care for working people in this country is mainly designed to keep people patched up enough to keep working. Since the only time we’re useful to the people who own and rule this country is the years when we’re working and making profits for them, the health system takes just enough care of our diseases and accidents to keep us at work. If we’re unemployed or on welfare, we get even less. Never is extra time or attention spent on preventive medicine or on our emotional or social problems. There’s just no profit in these areas. And once we’re too old or too messed up to work, we’re thrown on the scrap heap for good. Hospitals like Laguna Honda are places for old people, paraplegics and mental “defectives”—people from whom the owners and rulers of this country have squeezed every drop of work and profits.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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