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Xatolos@reddthat.com to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months ago

You Can Thank Private Equity for That Enormous Doctor’s Bill

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You Can Thank Private Equity for That Enormous Doctor’s Bill

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Xatolos@reddthat.com to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months ago
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  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    You can think private equity for expensive everything.

    And also all of your favorite stores and restaurants closing down for no good reason.

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      Came here to say this. Thank you for beating me to it.

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        If civilization survives, our descendants are going to look back at private equity firms and wonder why we allowed such things to exist.

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          If civilization is going to survive, leaving this specific problem to our descendents won’t be an option. Private Equity is an us problem, and we need to treat it like one.

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    Paywall.

    Out of curiosity, how can there be 30 upvotes on a paywalled article? Do they all have WSJ subscriptions?

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      Mainly just people reading the headline, upvoting, then continue scrolling (I am guilty of this as a lurker). Working in healthcare, I don’t even need to read this article to know it’s true. Private equity is the antithesis of good public healthcare.

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        They have been taking over practices since at least early 2010s.

        By the time this shit goes normie stream, the fuckening has already happened.

        Privacy is another example lol

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      Use archive.is to access the full article

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        Here: https://archive.is/20240601043255/https://www.wsj.com/health/healthcare/you-can-thank-private-equity-for-that-enormous-doctors-bill-3a2fc90b

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      You’re certainly right about observing this incongruity. It’s probably one statement that feels so obviously correct that people upvote it without even bothering to read the article.

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      https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome?tab=readme-ov-file

      • impure9435@kbin.run
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        It’s not maintained anymore. The last commit is 8 months old. Use Bypass Paywalls Clean instead, here’s the Firefox version: https://github.com/bpc-clone/bypass-paywalls-firefox-clean

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        THANK YOU! I can finally read the NYT now

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          I recommend switching to Bypass Paywalls Clean, since Bypass Paywalls is not maintained anymore.

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            Thank you too!! I tried it last night and I couldn’t get into NYT or other sites on the permissions list. I’ll try this one today

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              12ft.io and archive.is are also worth trying out if BPC doesn’t work for some reason. There are also self-hosted solutions like 13ft and ladder.

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