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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Jul 7, 2023

[thread] Medical Industrial Complex

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical%E2%80%93industrial_complex
* network of interactions betw. pharmaceutical corporations, health care personnel, medical conglomerates to supply health care-related products/services for profit

See also: Poverty industrial complex
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Private Equity Takeover of Hospice Care
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/healthcare-medicare-illness-privatization

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#neoliberalism #MedicalIndustrialComplex #healthcare #HospiceCare #PrivateEquity

Medical–industrial complex - Wikipedia

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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Aug 15, 2023

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Private Equity Firm Might Be Your Next Landlord
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/15/nyregion/private-equity-apartments-nyc.html

* NYC investors buying up 100s of smaller buildings, prompting concerns over NYC’s deepening housing crisis
* private equity firms quietly spent $100s millions buying apartments
* focus on assets -businesses; housing - they can buy cheaply but have big profits

#capitalism #neoliberalism #inflation #PrivateEquity #DerfundBillionaires #HumanRights #AffordableHousing #RentalUnits #greed #avarice #profiteering

A Private Equity Firm Might Be Your Next Landlord

Investment firms are buying smaller buildings in the boroughs from families and smaller landlords. Some tenants are wary.

The New York Times

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Grey Elephant

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“People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.” ~ Adam Smith
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-i7cawhw8s
Cracked illustrates why the housing market is so unaffordable
https://youtube.com/watch?v=gqFPhsO-2W0
thejuicemedia discusses the situation of Rent and Housing in Australia

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