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Hospital Beds Are a Monopoly

The casket to hospital bed monopoly pipeline

Jan 5, 2022

A Hillrom Totalcare Spo2rt 2 Surface hospital bed; it has been modified so that a dancing version of Monopoly’s Rich Uncle Pennybags is dancing on the headrest; he has removed his face and is waving it like a tamborine; his head is a grinning death-skull.

Jan 5, 2022

Cory Doctorow

Democrats, Health Care Monopolies, and Market Failures

Market health care is a fatal disease

Sep 27, 2021

An abandoned, ruined hospital wing; in the foreground, a dancing Uncle Pennybags figure from the Monopoly game, he has removed his face, revealing a skull. Image: Nitram242 (modified) https://www.flickr.com/photos/25165196@N08/7082538687/ CC BY: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/

Sep 27, 2021

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