ER certainties: death and co-pays

http://www.newsandletters.org/issues/2011/Sep-Oct/wstSepOct_11.asp
Date Written:  2011-09-01
Publisher:  News & Letters
Year Published:  2011
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX15789

Our society has made choices that dehumanize all of us. Dehumanization is felt inside and outside the shop floor. The HMO's bottom line is not about how well the patient's illness is treated, but how to minimize costs. They remind us employees daily that we're a business. The corporate ethos is the survival of the business above all, over anyone else's survival.