- cross-posted to:
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- sino@hexbear.net
- cross-posted to:
- politics@hexbear.net
- sino@hexbear.net
Private Equity companies have rolled up manufacturers of ambulances, fire trucks, and other first responder equipment tools in the United States and Canada.
As a result, a small handful of companies control supply and pricing, and have aggressively raised costs and increased order backlogs.
Equipment in the North American market are ten times more expensive than for comparable tools from China, and wait times are three years or longer.
Closing scene, Shantang Street, Suzhou, Jiangsu
Kevin sounds frustrated here! Looks like he is slowly radicalizing people into anti capitalism! 👀
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I was recently wondering what China’s average hospitals are like. How far through development are they? As in are they effective but… unpolished, equally depressing to western ones. Or if they are already beyond western hospitals in all fronts, wait times, success rate for procedures, but also the hospitality.
I recently went to a Canadian hospital to get… a few stitches on a wound. Since there were no other “urgent care” places available. Which is a common occurrence (people going to the hospital for things that don’t need to be treated at a hospital, as well as many people not having “family doctors” or walk in clinics in their city). I was actually treated very quickly because the doc was ending his shift, and doing simple things to clear up space. Since every seat was full and many people were standing. Including a woman who was either pregnant or had problems with her uterus I think. I overheard she had already had a ultrasound… was in discomfort. She was still standing there when I walked out.
Anyways for those who don’t know Canadian hospitals are probably way worse than you expect. All beds are full, beds are in hallways. People are discharged prematurely to clear up space. Doctors are overworked and as a result give worse attention to detail ect. Recently some guy died in the emergency room after waiting for 8 hours with chest pain. Just found another, 16 year old died after 8 hour wait. He had sepsis and pneumonia.
Recently I know someone who had heart surgery and was discharged (negligently) despite not feeling well. They had a infection and had to go back… it could have been very bad.
Liberals love to run defense for Canadian healthcare because they’re so deluded that they think the only alternative is the American model. Yet Canadian hospitals are built and ran more or less in the same way to American ones… with capitalistic metrics in mind. Built reactively not proactively.
I found a YouTube link in your post. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Not sure the cost and wait times for fire trucks and ambulances mean that much. Since private equity owns all the houses, they’ll make sure fire fighting equipment gets paid for through taxes. Who can afford the luxury of riding in an ambulance to a hospital that takes what few saving a person has?
