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[–] Hatshepsut@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The world’s wealthiest woman has a blunt diagnosis of the sickness she has set out to cure. “Health care is going to break and bankrupt American companies, and America itself, if we don’t change it,” Alice Walton says in a forceful Southern drawl.

Ah yes, of course. This has nothing to do with helping people get care or promoting things to keep them healthy so they don’t fall ill, etc. How twisted.

This reads like a PR press release written to present itself as philanthropy when it’s nothing more than corporate strategy designed to keep the have-nots from bankrupting billionaires. Fuck her.

[–] BanMe@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

If you dig into it, she's trying to create this holistic, patient-centered model, which is absolutely unaffordable and untenable in today's world, she's paying the tuitions of the first class herself because the new teaching hospital she built is so insanely expensive it couldn't run on affordable tuitions. There's no way to scale what she's doing for all Americans. She wants patients to paint while they recover from things, because it helped her.

Either she's out of touch as all hell and doesn't understand any of this (possible), or she's really just creating a template for the rich (likely) or both are possible.

[–] SGGeorwell@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

A criminal tumor wants me to go to the doctor?

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 5 points 1 day ago

The company doctor.

[–] Professorozone@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

Man I read that whole thing and found it to be really vague. I mean, is this new strategy supposed to rely on crystals, meditation, what? Just sounds like another rich person trying to make something SHE would call a legacy. She'd have better results if she started putting some of that wealth into lobbying.