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Chris Schwab

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20+ year kidney dialysis advocate, seen the worst of monopoly power abuse. Highlights - CO dialysis tech bill, 3 kids I'm proud of 🚫DMs Background: dialysisethics2.org/index.php/artic…

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Chris Schwab @breakupdavita.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
I'm attending a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social event: CO SOC Meeting (aka a Colorado Common Defense meeting)- May 2026. RSVP here: actionnetwork.org/events/co-so... (Common Defense, a vet-led organization with progressive roots: commondefense.us)
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CO SOC Meeting - May 2026
Please join us for our monthly Colorado State Organizing Committee meeting. This meeting will be held on the 3rd Tuesday of each month at 6pm MT.
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Chris Schwab @breakupdavita.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
New Affordability Agenda - shades of FDR's New Deal! I like what I'm hearing! www.youtube.com/live/HqVzJdK...
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🔴 LIVE: Congressional Progressive Caucus Announces New Affordability Agenda
YouTube video by Congressman Greg Casar
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Chris Schwab @breakupdavita.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
One corporate overlord taking it on the chin: BOOM: Ticketmaster GUILTY of Monopolization open.substack.com/pub/mattstol...
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BOOM: Ticketmaster GUILTY of Monopolization
Company execs joked about their customers, privately saying they were "robbing them blind, baby." Today, a jury handed the ticketing and concert giant a complete defeat.
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Chris Schwab @breakupdavita.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Former FTC chair Lina Khan (see profile post) on NYC's Mamdani's first 100 days: "“He’s relentlessly focused on tackling concrete pain points in people’s daily lives, and modeling how government can be effective and efficient.” NYC's Mayor Mamdani's first 100 days prospect.org/2026/04/10/z...
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Getting New York City to Believe in Government - The American Prospect
Maintaining the momentum of Zohran Mamdani’s historically successful election campaign has meant doing the little things right.
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Chris Schwab @breakupdavita.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
I'm all in favor of the Iranian war! - as long as Lindsey Graham, our Grimms Brothers' fairy tale princess is on the front lines leading the charge into Iranian Dizz Knee land! And yes, that one soldier is retching, I don't know why.
It is ok to be a fairy tale princess, just don't be a Grimms Brothers' fairy tale princess
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Chris Schwab @breakupdavita.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Jeff Bezos Just Taught Liberal Elites How Oligarchy Really Works open.substack.com/pub/mattstol...
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Jeff Bezos Just Taught Liberal Elites How Oligarchy Really Works
Bezos was feted as the savior of the Washington Post in 2013, now he's reviled for mass layoffs. But it's also Google who helped crush the paper. Liberal elites are starting to learn about oligarchy.
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Chris Schwab @breakupdavita.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
(Uh, oh "too big to fail" making a comeback? Shades of 2008! Somehow I don't think the Donald will be bailing out homeowners-Obama didn't) "Massive, unprecedented payouts from the New York Federal Reserve could signal that big banks are seriously short on cash. www.levernews.com/the-federal-... "
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The Federal Reserve’s $420 Billion Wall Street Bailout
Massive, unprecedented payouts from the New York Federal Reserve could signal that big banks are seriously short on cash.
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Chris Schwab @breakupdavita.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
With the barrage of bad news, it does perk me up to see some good news now and then. More on Lina Khan, 60 minutes: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebQt... 60 Minutes Overtime: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebQt... YOU LOVE TO SEE IT: An Anti-Monopolist Takes Manhattan www.levernews.com/you-love-to-...
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YOU LOVE TO SEE IT: An Anti-Monopolist Takes Manhattan
Lina Khan joins forces with Zohran Mamdani, a “rent-a-bank” loophole gets plugged, a legendary river is unleashed, and data spies are compromised.
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Chris Schwab @breakupdavita.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Also: "So your Sinemas and Manchins (villains) turn into Fettermans and Kaines… and nothing ever has to change." ------------------------- The Securities and Exchange Commission will no longer protect shareholders’ right to file class action lawsuits. www.levernews.com/see-you-in-c...
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See You In Court?
The Securities and Exchange Commission will no longer protect shareholders’ right to file class action lawsuits.
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Chris Schwab @breakupdavita.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Amid explosive data center growth and electricity usage at Microsoft, co-founder Bill Gates now says climate change is no biggie. www.levernews.com/we-did-it-bi...
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We Did It, Bill
Amid explosive data center growth and electricity usage at Microsoft, cofounder Bill Gates now says climate change is no biggie.
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Chris Schwab @breakupdavita.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
The oil and gas giant is using a free speech argument to challenge new emissions standards. www.levernews.com/exxon-takes-...
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Exxon Takes A Drill To New Emissions Accountability Rules
The oil and gas giant is using a free speech argument to challenge new emissions standards.
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Chris Schwab @breakupdavita.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
America’s problems are simple to diagnose and solve. Let’s stop pretending everything is complex and entertainingly counterintuitive. www.levernews.com/its-just-not...
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It’s Just Not That Complicated
America’s problems are simple to diagnose and solve. Let’s stop pretending everything is complex and entertainingly counterintuitive.
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Chris Schwab @breakupdavita.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
The mayoral candidate defeated the master plan for the first time ever — and that’s prompted an elite panic about who gets to control political outcomes. www.levernews.com/whos-afraid-...
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Who’s Afraid Of Zohran Mamdani?
The mayoral candidate defeated the master plan for the first time ever — and that’s prompted an elite panic about who gets to control political outcomes.
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Chris Schwab @breakupdavita.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
I've seen stories of Warren Buffett's magnanimity and generosity. It sounds easier to pull off than having to talk about the bruised backs he may have climbed over to get to the top! I've run into people who are willing to talk about those bruised backs-and I've seen it. 2025 Omaha Walk highlights:
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Blog #36 Post May 3rd, 2025 Omaha SaveTheBillionairesOrNot Walk
This organization is a nationwide effort on the part of patients, healthcare workers,and family members to improve conditions in ESRD, transplants, and Dialysis
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Remember: If unions didn’t matter, powerful corporations wouldn’t spend millions of dollars every year to stop workers from organizing. Keep up the fight.
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Chris Schwab @breakupdavita.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Posted on the Nebraska subreddit. Wasn't sure about the reception I would get. I'm a little unhappy with a Nebraska favorite son. Apparently Buffett isn't a favorite son with everybody. I got quite a few upvotes and even had a moderator put the kabash on a person who was giving me some static!
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From the Nebraska community on Reddit
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Chris Schwab @breakupdavita.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Posted on the Nebraska subreddit. Wasn't sure about the reception I would get. I'm a little unhappy with a Nebraska favorite son. Apparently Buffett isn't a favorite son with everybody. I got quite a few upvotes and even had a moderator put the kabash on a person who was giving me some static!
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From the Nebraska community on Reddit
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Chris Schwab @breakupdavita.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
I consider the following Walk a blow against our corporate-bought democracy. Don't expect a Mother Teresa at your clinic bedside anymore, more like a guy with a spreadsheet. Besides info about the Omaha Walk, take a look at the mortality rate for KIDS!!! linked to near the beginning of the blog!
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Blog #35 3rd Annual Trip to the "Woodstock of MONOPOLISTIC Capitalism" (aka the little roman empire on the praire - Omaha NE) May 3rd, 2025 )
This organization is a nationwide effort on the part of patients, healthcare workers,and family members to improve conditions in ESRD, transplants, and Dialysis
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Chris Schwab @breakupdavita.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
More lies on the way? quote: "As we see in cable and streaming, consolidation routinely just results in higher prices, layoffs, worst product quality, and widespread public annoyance." abovethelaw.com/2025/04/trum...
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Trump FCC Prepares To Destroy Whatever’s Left Of Media Consolidation Limits - Above the Law
From the merge-ALL-the-things! dept
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Chris Schwab @breakupdavita.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Started on substack, seeing if I can also get the word out about what just maybe one root cause of the political mess we are in - the corporate takeover of our healthcare. Too bad decent healthcare gets in the way of obscene profits! substack.com/home/post/p-...
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3rd Annual Trip to the "Woodstock of MONOPOLISTIC Capitalism" (aka the little roman empire on the prairie - Omaha NE) May 3rd, 2025 )
Warren Buffett, is he a not-so cuddly teddy bear investor hiding behind a mighty, mighty PR machine?
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Chris Schwab @breakupdavita.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Private equity firms want to revive their tax rewards for looting companies and screwing workers. levernews.com/the-gordon-g...
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The Gordon Gekko Tax Break
Private equity firms want to revive their tax rewards for looting companies and screwing workers.
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Chris Schwab @breakupdavita.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
The following video helped me understand the billionaire class a bit more. Their air of superiority looks to be mixed in with a dash of insecurity - resulting in the savants we are dealing with www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQzJ...
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Trump COLLUSION with Oligarchs BLOWN WIDE OPEN
YouTube video by MeidasTouch
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Chris Schwab @breakupdavita.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
After the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, a new rule targeted the riskiest deposits. Now Trump has rescinded it. www.levernews.com/bank-failure...
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Bank Failures For All
After the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, a new rule targeted the riskiest deposits. Now Trump has rescinded it.
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Chris Schwab @breakupdavita.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
I was informed by author and writer Matt Stoller in his newsletter BIG that the elitist side of the Democratic party is once again trying to knife us in the back while we are distracted by Trump (see reply for Stoller quote) So much for the average Joe and Jane having a voice.
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Chris Schwab @breakupdavita.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Read how Trump has been thinking about privatizing the Post Office. Could an NSA scandal and kidney dialysis be predicting a privatized Post Office future? A Blog dialysisethics2.org/index.php/ar...
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Blog #34 Privatize the Post Office? Couldn't be Wall Street is just seeing a Big Pile of Money they Want (whoever heard of that)
This organization is a nationwide effort on the part of patients, healthcare workers,and family members to improve conditions in ESRD, transplants, and Dialysis
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Chris Schwab @breakupdavita.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
You love to see it! An Indigenous rights activist walks free, a gun-loving state holsters its most dangerous weapons, abortion care resumes where it should have never stopped, and shoppers abandon corporate sycophants.  www.levernews.com/you-love-to-...
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YOU LOVE TO SEE IT: “Today I Am Finally Free”
A legendary activist is released, an arms race slows down, abortion providers get their license, and shoppers dump their toxic exes.
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Chris Schwab @breakupdavita.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Trump trust-busting? I'm filing this one under "even an orange blind squirrel trips over a nut once in awhile".
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Chris Schwab @breakupdavita.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
The Republican president’s new regulators are suddenly touting the trust-busting agenda that Democrat Kamala Harris eschewed during the 2024 campaign. www.levernews.com/trump-regula...
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Trump Regulators Flip The Script On Antitrust
The Republican president’s new regulators are suddenly touting the trust-busting agenda that Democrat Kamala Harris eschewed during the 2024 campaign.
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CCscott @ccscott.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
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FWC Indivisible @fwcindivisible.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Where does the accumulated debt of this country come from? It comes from Republican Presidents. So much for Republican's being the party of fiscal responsibility, all to pass their tax scam.
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Chris Schwab @breakupdavita.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
As I mentioned, I'm a new member of CRRN here in Denver. I'll also mention I'm a new member of Common Defense, a nationwide progressive veteran-led organization. CD is an organization I'm more comfortable with. Why do I say that? One of the organizations backing CRRN is the PSL (continued)
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Chris Schwab @breakupdavita.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
I'm a new member of the Colorado Rapid Response Network that has been showing up at the ICE raids recently in the Denver/Aurora area. I did get a chance to join the crowd shouting out the rights of immigrants at the Denver Cedar Run Apts. raid that was all over the national news. (continued)
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Chris Schwab @breakupdavita.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Don't let the kidney dialysis description confuse you. The article is about immigration. I put up the article on a site I maintain - I'm broadening out my concerns since my neighbors are being threatened here in the Denver/Aurora area. We are still quite worried about Trump's Operation Aurora
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Chris Schwab @breakupdavita.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
I recently attended a Colorado Rapid Response Network training meeting. CRRN does things like showing up at live ICE raids to observe and intervene if need be. It looks like they have a lot of legal help for one thing. I wrote a short article about it: dialysisethics2.org/index.php/ar...
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Colorado Rapid Response Network's January 18th, 2025 Denver Meeting
This organization is a nationwide effort on the part of patients, healthcare workers,and family members to improve conditions in ESRD, transplants, and Dialysis
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Chris Schwab @breakupdavita.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
A majority of Americans favor deporting illegal immigrants. However if ICE starts separating children, that all changes. "In sum, the more people focus on the basic humanity of migrants, the more they reject the cruelty of Trump’s actions."
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Trump’s Gestapo Raids
The Latest from the...
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Chris Schwab @breakupdavita.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Regulators approved controversial therapies amid excess deaths, questionable efficacy, and conflicts of interest. www.levernews.com/the-deadly-s...
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The Deadly Secrets Behind “Breakthrough” Alzheimer’s Drugs
Regulators approved controversial therapies amid excess deaths, questionable efficacy, and conflicts of interest.
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Chris Schwab @breakupdavita.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
So what could Trump be using wmd - "weapons of mass distraction" - like Canada, Greenland, and immigration to distract us from? Oh yeah: www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-t... Not seeing one thing about taxing the ultra-wealthy. I'm trying to be surprised.
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Paying for Trump's tax cuts could lead to big changes for taxpayers. Here's what could be in store.
Republican lawmakers are floating a range of ideas to pay for an extension of President Trump's Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
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Chris Schwab @breakupdavita.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
So what needs blowing up - monopolies! Writer @matthewstoller.bsky.social did an interesting piece on the LA fires and the shortage of fire trucks due to the monopolization of fire truck manufacturing which has resulted in higher prices and long delays. More to come (like kidney dialysis)
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Chris Schwab @breakupdavita.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
We are steeling ourselves here in the Denver/Aurora area for Trump's Operation Aurora. And today we've got a long awaited protest in Aurora. It should be interesting to see what the speakers have to say. Too bad Trump isn't blowing up things that need blowing up - maybe I should get into that
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From the DenverProtests community on Reddit: Aurora Day of Action, 1/25 at 2pm (most recent)
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 24/01/2025
it's like AOC is the only person who is expressing an actual emotion here
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Chris Schwab @breakupdavita.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
I think we found a replacement for Ramaswamy on DOGE www.youtube.com/watch?v=gN7d...
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Watch Elon Realize HE SCREWED UP (ft Senator Warren)
YouTube video by Adam Mockler
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Patsy “Resistance Kitty” Evans Ph.D. @drharmony.net · 21/01/2025
hell froze over
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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
If she can do it, we can all do it.
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Chris Schwab @breakupdavita.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
While sitting here wondering if our corporate-led democracy is going to turn into a corporate-led dictatorship, I'm recalling how we got here. The following article popped into my head, thinking it might be worth another read. But I'm wondering if there is one thing we've got on our side (cont.)
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How Baby Boomers Broke America
According to ‘Tailspin’ author Steven Brill
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Chris Schwab @breakupdavita.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
While sitting here wondering if our corporate-led democracy is going to turn into a corporate-led dictatorship, I'm recalling how we got here. The following article popped into my head, thinking it might be worth another read. But I'm wondering if there is one thing we've got on our side (cont.)
time.com
How Baby Boomers Broke America
According to ‘Tailspin’ author Steven Brill
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Chris Schwab @breakupdavita.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
(from a newsletter I follow) Developers and real estate interests crushed efforts to limit development in high-wildfire-risk areas — including in L.A. neighborhoods now in ashes. www.levernews.com/the-architec...
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The Architects Of L.A.’s Wildfire Devastation
Developers and real estate interests crushed efforts to limit development in high-wildfire-risk areas — including in L.A. neighborhoods now in ashes.
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Chris Schwab @breakupdavita.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Speaking of the "free" market, here are some of the scandals in kidney dialysis, an excellent example of how NOT to run healthcare: dialysisethics2.org/index.php/ar...
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Large Dialysis Organizations Run-Ins with The Law and the Media
Former CEO Kent Thiry and Davita were in a field of medicine that has had the highest mortality rate in the industrialized world! Profits over people?
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Monica @softtail65.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Just sayin'...
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Chris Schwab @breakupdavita.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
NYT's best-selling author Tom Mueller wrote an example of horrific outcomes for higher prices in medicine: 'How to Make a Killing' www.tommueller.co/how-to-make-...
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How to Make a Killing — Tom Mueller
AN INVITATION : Do you have a story to tell, as a dialysis patient, family member, advocate, dialysis worker, nephrologist, or other insider in the world of US dialysis? Please contact me at tom@t...
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godlessbitch.bsky.social @godlessbitch.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Said nobody Ever
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