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John Ross
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Canadian in Boston. Hospitalist. FIDSA. #M4A #RaisetheWage #BLM #IDSky #GoHabsGo http://bit.ly/4mtlvaN
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So, private equity has been quietly buying up nursing homes/rehabs, spinning off the real estate into a trust, cutting costs and running them into the ground while milking the Medicare income, and then redeveloping the real estate for profit when the facilities inevitably go bankrupt 2/2
Let's see who you really are meme: Fred discovers that private equity is responsible for the haunted amusement park, and everything else going wrong in the US of A
November 23, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Non-paywalled
archive.ph
November 20, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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Dammit, they're going whole Høeg
November 14, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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Go raibh maith agat!
November 14, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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"Charisma" doing a lot of work here
November 14, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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"Growing old is not for sissies"—Bette Davis, supposedly
November 13, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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Hope you're feeling better soon!
November 13, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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We're all trying to find the guy who did this!
insights.som.yale.edu/insights/why...
But today, I am not talking about a vaccine-derived polio outbreak. For the first time in several years, we have a worsening outbreak of wild-type polio, in Pakistan. Wild type polio—the original polio—has been on the cusp of eradication except for one major region in the world, Pakistan and Afghanistan. There has been enormous progress, with fewer than two dozen cases for several years running. But that progress is being partially undone now. In Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan, where over one million people live, a single case has been detected and wastewater detection there and elsewhere in Pakistan indicates real ongoing concern. In Afghanistan, many more cases are circulating, including vaccine-related cases. Both wild-type and vaccine-related cases can be eradicated through high penetration of vaccination. But that is where the problems begin. There are many reasons why citizens of Pakistan have seen declining rates of immunization, but one of them relates to the U.S. government’s efforts to find Osama bin Laden by using a fake vaccination program to identify bin Laden’s location. In 2014, the US government promised not to do such a thing again, but the damage was done. There are, obviously, many more reasons for individuals to become skeptical. But this one stings a lot. This week the Taliban, the de facto ruling entity of Afghanistan, banned most of their polio vaccination program. This, too, is a very concerning move.
November 13, 2025 at 2:40 PM