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The Great Minnesota Nurses Strike

It Could Happen Here

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The Health Care System in the United States

Hospitals have been consolidating so much, like closing clinics and facilities. Their whole goal is kind of like how airlines overbook for flights. They create like an artificial hospital, beds shortage in order to maximize profit. So they've been doing that for years. And then also just buying up little hospitals to control the market more am they've also are starting their own insurance companies,. Just a double dip in the community's wallets. Prior to the pandemic. Pandemic hit, they were not ready. There's no financially incentive ice to hea extra p p on hand. That's their logic.

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