If people think it's just one doctor/one clinic profiting off from this pandemic, they'd be wrong.
I know a couple of people who worked at these COVID testing sites in NYC (area near Columbia University), Brooklyn and in New Jersey for $15/hour. If one wants to work there, s/he doesn't even need to have work permit (because these sites hire foreign medical graduates for cheap labor). One just need to be able to draw blood, if necessary and that's the main requirement to work there.
All of these clinics are owned by doctors. I'm 100% sure these clinic owners get reimbursed more than $15 per test from the US government. It is a financial windfall for those entrepreneurial doctors and clinic owners who are willing to ignore proper screening in hiring COVID testers at the sites.
Could well be. Many people are saddened by the whole idea of a for-profit healthcare system ... regardless of the politics ... and I'm among them. Health is a Human Right.
As for the predatory equity firms that control many of them, I'd be delighted to see them thrown out of the US ... after their owners serve serious jail-time.
Edit: While we're at it, how about 1 year of jail time for every US citizen who has died of opioids made by US pharmas. They can divide that time up however their employees decide is fair.
I know a couple of people who worked at these COVID testing sites in NYC (area near Columbia University), Brooklyn and in New Jersey for $15/hour. If one wants to work there, s/he doesn't even need to have work permit (because these sites hire foreign medical graduates for cheap labor). One just need to be able to draw blood, if necessary and that's the main requirement to work there.
All of these clinics are owned by doctors. I'm 100% sure these clinic owners get reimbursed more than $15 per test from the US government. It is a financial windfall for those entrepreneurial doctors and clinic owners who are willing to ignore proper screening in hiring COVID testers at the sites.