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One of the main reasons employers want to keep healthcare private; enormous leverage against labor, organized or not..

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[–] unfreeradical@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

There are many variations of the theme throughout history that may be called hospitals, but any large facility for housing the ill would have tended to have no private owner. Doctors visiting the homes of patients has been more common historically than patients visiting homes or offices of doctors.

[–] stolid_agnostic@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Now that’s the service I wish still existed.

[–] unfreeradical@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

One problem is that as technology has been advanced to treat health conditions, care for individuals has been forgotten in its basic essence of being humane and social.