Deaths of despair: why America’s medical industry explains working-class suicides

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A system based on the corporate pursuit of profit sets the US apart from other countries, fleecing the poor to give to the rich

The US healthcare system is helping to kill people in staggering numbers. And when it isn’t driving Americans to an early grave, the medical industry is bleeding the rest of the country of resources at the expense of decent jobs, crucial infrastructure and schools, according to a new book by two of the country’s leading economists.

 

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They completely missed the boat. This is only seen as a white thing because industry left the inner cities and was replaced with white middle and upper class drug buyers. This is neither new for white working class people nor limited to white people.

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