{"id":3992,"date":"2020-03-20T00:36:27","date_gmt":"2020-03-20T00:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/?p=3992"},"modified":"2020-03-20T00:36:27","modified_gmt":"2020-03-20T00:36:27","slug":"the-guardian-deaths-of-despair-why-americas-medical-industry-explains-working-class-suicides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/2020\/03\/20\/the-guardian-deaths-of-despair-why-americas-medical-industry-explains-working-class-suicides\/","title":{"rendered":"The Guardian: Deaths of despair: why America\u2019s medical industry explains working-class suicides"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2020\/mar\/19\/us-healthcare-industry-working-class-deaths\">by Chris McGreal, Thu 19 Mar 2020  A system based on corporate pursuit of profit sets the US apart from other countries, fleecing the poor to give to the rich.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The couple concluded that the medical industry is at the heart of two key drivers in making those deaths an American phenomenon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne fact is that they unleashed these extremely powerful opioids on to the general public as if they were jelly beans at an Easter parade and that has not happened in Europe,\u201d said Case. \u201cThe second is the way that we organise our healthcare system. We have the most expensive healthcare in the world and how do we pay for that? We pay for that per person.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That has created a system Case and Deaton described as \u201cSheriff of Nottingham redistribution\u201d in the fleecing of the poor to give to rich corporations while the high cost of healthcare forces companies to shed jobs and drives firms to bankruptcy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe American healthcare system is a leading example of an institution that, under political protection, redistributes income upwards to hospitals, physicians, device-makers, and pharmaceutical companies while delivering among the worst health outcomes of any rich country,\u201d the economists write.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Chris McGreal, Thu 19 Mar 2020 A system based on corporate pursuit of profit sets the US apart from other countries, fleecing the poor to give to the rich. The couple concluded that the medical industry is at the heart of two key drivers in making those deaths an American phenomenon. \u201cOne fact is &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/2020\/03\/20\/the-guardian-deaths-of-despair-why-americas-medical-industry-explains-working-class-suicides\/\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9,2308,11,13,15,17],"tags":[2495,2496,2338,2493,2497,1242,2494],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-sergneri","4":"post-3992","6":"format-standard","7":"category-ethical-and-green-living","8":"category-finanace","9":"category-future-of-work","10":"category-it-failures","11":"category-politics","12":"category-science","13":"category-thinking-about","14":"post_tag-deaths-of-despair","15":"post_tag-greed","16":"post_tag-healthcare","17":"post_tag-healthcare-system","18":"post_tag-insulin","19":"post_tag-opioids","20":"post_tag-rich-corporations"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3992"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3995,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3992\/revisions\/3995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}