Mother’s death sparks concern about hospital investment
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 11 окт 2024
- CBS News takes a look at the mounting patient risks and health care compromises that have surfaced under hospitals owned by private equity-backed companies. We talked to the family of Sungida Rashid, a new mom who died after giving birth at a Boston hospital.
Each weekday morning, "CBS Mornings" co-hosts Gayle King, Tony Dokoupil and Nate Burleson bring you the latest breaking news, smart conversation and in-depth feature reporting. "CBS Mornings" airs weekdays at 7 a.m. on CBS and stream it at 8 a.m. ET on the CBS News app.
Subscribe to "CBS Mornings" on RUclips: / cbsmornings
Watch CBS News: cbsnews.com/live/
Download the CBS News app: cbsnews.com/mo...
Follow "CBS Mornings" on Instagram: / cbsmornings
Like "CBS Mornings" on Facebook: / cbsmornings
Follow "CBS Mornings" on Twitter: / cbsmornings
Subscribe to our newsletter: cbsnews.com/ne...
Try Paramount+ free: paramountplus....
For video licensing inquiries, contact: licensing@veritone.com
That's what a criminal looks like. Private companies need to be disallowed to buy hospitals because they're a public good and they literally prevent medical staff from fulfilling their oath of do no harm.
Yeah...but that's 'Merca, where healthcare is for-profit (unlike in mosty other civilized and advanced countries). What do you expect?
@moreanimals6889 I totally agree with you. This should not be allowed and something needs to happen on the federal level to enact change.
Healthcare should never be private, it’s criminal! It’s a basic need!
Private Equity should be banned, altogether.
Private equity is an existential threat to our national security. They undermine so many of our economic pillars and have for decades. The vast economic displacement they cause has led to political instability and an erosion of the tax base which has contributed substantially to sustained budget deficits. Our media and politicians are complicit because so many of them come from or have an interest in Private Equity. The fuse is burning and no one wants to put it out. It's crazy to watch.
It’s not just hospitals. Nursing homes, rehab centers, assisted living centers, and memory care units are also all being taken over by private equity.
We just went through it with one "State of the Art" nursing facility that is HORRIBLE. The facility looks good, but the care for the non-ambulatory/rehab patients is abysmal (at best). There is little you can do with these companies...they don't want to spend the money on patient care, but they seem to have enough money to pay for expensive attorneys. Best advice? Look for in-home care providers...you will be better off.
Housing should not be held by private equity either
Healthcare is all thats left. They have been pillaging for 40 years now.
No more private equity in healthcare facilities. Hospitals should be community owned, non profit entities with proportionate pay grades top to bottom based on job roles and value to the end users: patients and community.
Bless the nurse for speaking out. I hope she speaks to any camera she sees.
Nurses need unions to protect our livelihoods. This nurse was a member of a union but many of us work in at-will states. Support unions and then workers aren’t afraid to speak up to shine a spotlight on graft and fraud-everyone wins except the bad actors.
Oddly, that nurse seemed slightly more upset over the mom’s death than the dad did.
I waited 7 months for a regular physical with a new PCP. My previous one left the practice.
This young MD spends 13 minutes with me, screaming at me because I don’t have a GYN. Listens to my heart. Leaves the room in a huff. The insurance company was charged $320.00.
I called my insurance company, had her investigated for insurance fraud. No further plan of care noted, no refill for cholesterol lowering medication, elder abuse.
I know I am one of millions of Americans who pay good money for health insurance, only to be dismissed. I want a refund
Patients should be allowed refunds when appoints go this bad. I'm sorry that happened to you.
And they harass you for a $25.00 co pay. 🤦🏽♀️ they will be liable for more than 2 mil now! A baby that will never hear her mother's laughter, how sad!
The HAVE TO HAVE IT!
😂 yet not paying there bills
And they train their doctors to push their money making drugs and not care about patients. My friend is a doctor and she told me that it is frowned upon to have compassion for patients when they do their residence… they are considered weak and kicked out of their program.
Who are the people that run that horrible company? The company can go away but those horrible people will still run other horrible companies. WHO ARE THEY?
out on that yacht they mentioned, I guess 😡💔
But great point, let's start naming names.
Look up private equity and healthcare. Their involvement in healthcare, assisted-living and hospice care has been detrimental. Their only interest is to siphon profits by loading the hospitals with debt and cutting costs to such an extent that care suffers. The cuts include employees, equipment and supplies. They don't care about their patients, they don't care whether they live or die. Heard of another story about a child who died from dental procedures and I think private equity was also involved in that. It's capitalism at its absolute worst.
The fact is the democrats out of DC DID in fact cut the Medicare reimbursements by 4.5 % -ask the democrats why they did that!
Ralph de la Torre (CEO) & Mark Rich (President)
They are based in Texas & are an international hospital company. They operate in the US, Columbia, & the middle east.
Why isn’t congress investigating this instead of foolishness like impeachment
No, executives do not always put patients first....in any hospital.
Will sometimes
I had went on a trip to Finland, and forgot my medications, but I provided proof of my prescriptions, and they apologies over and over again that it wasn't going to be covered under their single payer cause i'm a tourist, and it was $45 for all 3 of my medications, yet I regularly pay $350 here at home for it. It's so stupid. They even had a hospital displaying wait times for their emergency room and i remember it being
Right, they RARELY do.
Or employees. There will always be patients and there will always be someone in need of a JOB
never (hospital nurse)
This is what happens when you privatize important necessary industries. Example schools, prison, hospitals, and insurance industry. Without regulation and guidance.
Some people do care for people, but the only thing private company is to maximize profit over life. Great job government for thinking this is okay 👍.
Is it the government that thinks this is okay, or is it the people or a combination? The PEOPLE let this happen because they believed when they get rich it will be better for their interests. Capitalism. Privatization.
Ask the democrats why they cut the Medicare reimbursements by 4.5 %!
@@Inga912A people that have been victimized by a mass deception and marketing campaign to distort all issues away from classism and unrestrained capitalism helped in no part by the Main Stream Media owned by Major Conglomerates and sponsored by Pharmaceutical Monopolies.
I agree
So heartbreaking that this baby girl will grow up without her momma. A lifetime of loss.
Building Hospitals specifically FOR profit is a level of greed I never expected.
LOL - HCA AND TENET HEALTHCARE ARE 2 OTHER HUGE FOR PROFIT HEALTHCARE ENTITIES THAT CORP STAFF AND SHAREHOLDERS MAKE MILLIONS AND BILLIONS
Rest in peace young lady.
Private equity ruined health care in this country. Private equity is ruining housing in this country.
Why isn’t the government holding these private equity firms accountable??!! Hospitals across the country are closing because of their GREED!!!
Because members of government are also the shareholders of the for-profit medical system & any accountability would mean a drop in profits
@@jessica_R_9167 BUT SO IS ANY PERSON THAT HAS A 401K OR OTHER RETIREMENT PLAN THAT INVEST IN THE STOCK MARKET.. SEE HOW THAT WORKS. EVERYONE, AND I DO MEAN EVERYONE LIKES TO BEAT THERE CHEST WHEN THEIR RETIREMENT PORTFOLIOS ARE SLAMMING IT IN THE MARKET.. BUT WITH THAT COMES CHIT LIKE THIS VIDEO AND A HOST OF OTHER ISSUES.
Because they are profiting from it. Dollar signs over patient care.
Because corporations has resources lobbying politicians and hire professional lip services to say what people want to hear and some people readily accept what were said.
Community needs to lobby.
I have a good friend who worked as a healthcare provider for a Steward medical clinic and was so glad when they got a job elsewhere. I don't remember all the complaints but they included understaffing, failure to deal with problems, failure to provide a medical assistant for doctors and physician assistants, or in some cases totally incompetent medical assistants.
Wow! I live down the street from there. A couple of years ago, I took a friend to the emergency room. After watching this, I am never going there again.
Correction. The price of the executive's yacht was not 40 million dollars. It was 40 million dollars and one (and probably more) very precious human life. He is a real p o s.
Essential public services and goods should NEVER be for-profit. At the very least, they need to be heavily, heavily regulated.
Must everything be privatized in the States? From public transportation to healthcare to schools. These are basic necessities that should be run by governments (local, states, & federal) whether they turn up profit or not
There should be criminal charges for the executives who chose this.
At the price of healthcare in the USA it is unbielivable that someone dies like that. Scary to be treated in the US!
Repossession of medical supplies needed for life saving interventions??? Hope they get sued into bankruptcy.
They can easily get out of that. They can sell a troubled facility to a llc they create for this purpose, transfer debt from their other holdings to it, transfer its assets to other holdings, and file that llc for bankruptcy. Injured patients, creditors, vendors that the llc owes money to will get pennies on the dollar. This is a legal out for wrongdoers.
This is another problem with mfg of products. Surgery robots are under contract and can be remotely disabled if bills are not paid. There was one that was turned off during a surgery, and the surgeon had to finish the surgery tradition means. The hospital wants state of the art equipment and doctors to be able to use robots but can't pay for them. If the hospital cannot afford to pay for the entire piece of machinery it shouldn't have it. These types of products shouldn't be leased out or under contract.
A truly evil company
If CBS news isn’t going to stay on this and press Congress on this, what is the point of the story?
Exactly my point. This critical problem won't be solved until our government steps in with oversight, regulations and consequences. Our news reporters need to do extensive follow up to wake up the public and shame our politicians into action.
Unpaid bills, but i bet they paid shareholder dividends at the equity firm owners...
Poor Mr. Nabeel. How absolutely horrendous and beyond evil. 😭🙏💐
Are they sure that not giving the new mother treatment is the only thing this hospital f**ked up? A bleeding liver after childbirth is the weirdest thing I have heard of. I am thinking about pulmonary embolism or amniotic fluid embolism which will make more sense, but the symptoms don't fit. I suspect they probably failed to provide adequate prenatal care as well.
All I know is that I used to have only 4-5 patients on 12 hour nightshifts and it was up to 9, when I left in 2009. Plus they’d added on ortho and telemetry to my floor. Telemetry patients had to have a nurse accompanying to tests. So leaving my other post op pts to run around with one.
Anyway, they do not care about patients nor nurses. Always leave you feel like crap no matter how you hustled.
It's nice to finally hear from nurses regarding these issues. They're tired of being silenced. ALL of us should back them up in an effort to get others in the medical field to speak up too.
Housing should not be held by private equity firms either😢
Maybe sell the yacht?! Outlaw this business practice!
The one of the richest countries in the world and we have the highest rate of women deaths from pregnancy. 😕
Exactly. Ignaz Semmelweis…history repeats itself.
YEP but another thing, we also have a LOT of pregnant women in the United States that treats there pregnany like a sickness so they don't get in shapre or stay in shape. So that is on THEM
@@nunya2954 Don't victim shame. If healthcare was universal and basically free to the citizens we wouldn't have the heath crisis that we do on multiple fronts.
@@nunya2954 Idk wtf you are talking about. The US doesn’t have maternity leave and leave women with a hefty hospital bill. If women don’t work then their work doesn’t cover health insurance. So women have to act as if they were not pregnant at all often working overtime until the moment they give birth so they can keep their job and their health insurance and also afford the hospital bill because insurance only partially covers the hospital. Women are going back to work less than two days after giving birth. I’ve seen pregnant women changing tires, moving heavy furniture…opening doors for men…pregnant women standing at the obgyn office or on the metro because men are more fragile than them and prefer to sit.
@@jilpok1074 wtf are you talking about? The U.S. most certainly does have maternity care. Again, women in the States treat pregnancy like they are sick, and they just get fat and that IS on them.
This is just another example of the business world where CEO and Board of Directors pay is more important than anything.
I am so sorry for this gentleman’s loss
This country and its health care system is going down the toilet.
Sad but true
It has been going down the toilet since HMO's were created decades ago.
It’s been that way a long time
As a country we need to stand up and say people over profit to our elected representatives
Its already down the flusher ..even in the northeast where healthcare was supposed to be the best has become the worst
@@TheJanet4321 I noticed the system became worse after obamacare . A good doctor was no longer available and 2 long term quality doctors confirmed to me they left because of obamacare
Get rid of profit from health care, and it will save a lot of lives!!!!
Not just if she had the coil but what happened that she needed it
Why is this allowed to happen? Private equity companies do not belong in our hospitals what a shame.
There are some things that are basic human needs, like healthcare, housing, and food - that SHOULD NOT be subject to shareholder or private equity demands for profit. There must be a better way to incentivize appropriate investment in these areas than what we have today in the USA or the government run models like in the UK. 🤷🏽♀️
This is horrible. I love my fellow nurses but the ceo, or at least administration needs to be interviewed with no exception to decline and held accountable. It’s the patients that suffer and it’s the hospital staff that are unable to do their job due to the failures of hospital ceos and privatization. And politicians need to wake the f up and take capitalizing healthcare out and make sure patients are safe, not going into medical debt, and struggling to pay for medications. A lot of hospitals won’t even fully staff to save money and it’s not only dangerous for patients but for staff also.
Lots of politicians are owned by them. For instance, when Donald Rumsfeld left politics, he joined a private equity firm. It's a sad fact 🙁
@@Here4TheHeckOfIt so sad indeed
The best part of this is these politicians haven't woken up to the fact that EVERY HOSPITAL CEO and leadership team is doing the same thing, getting more and more greedy, and pricing healthcare too high while short staffing hospitals at the expense of staff and patient safety!
Politicians listen mostly to big donors, and these private equity guys, as stingy as they are w patient care, no doubt are very generous to political super pacs. They see lobbying costs and political donations as worthy investments toward growing their wealth.
That’s the entire healthcare system more importance on profit and self profit than patient care it’s sad
These equity firm owners shouldn't be shielded from liability if their financial policies cause a death because they dictate hospital treatment policies, and people suffer the price for it.
This has been going on for decades
10 years from now we’re gonna talk about private equity scavenged and broke down this country bit by bit. If there were people screaming from the rooftops about this for years.
Universal healthcare is necessary. If other countries can do it why can’t the allegedly greatest country!!
Pure evil
This is sad and happens in private or for profit.... doesn't matter. The bottom line, any upper management in any company make sure they are well comped before the needs of patients, customers and employees. And most of these shrude people move company to company and take all they can. There needs to be caps on what they make..... I mean how many times have I been told I am at max and cannot have a raise.
Private companies should not be allowed to own any medical businesses as well as any residential properties.
Such a terrible fate. So not ok
Socialised healthcare. Step up, America. 🇨🇦
That is going to make the problem much much worse
The government needs to get involved in healthcare now! People are dying or can’t afford treatment.
I legit thought she’d be black. It happens to us so often. These corporate owned hospitals have a lot to answer for. Whistleblowers are vital! People over profits, make it happen, please. RIP Sungida.
Private Equity Investors who have been doing are criminals & they should be charged as such. They are evil doers & need to be in prison. The government needs to interrupt the buyout or the merger of these evils.
In Tempe, Arizona, they should have been sued over the way my 92 year-old mom was treated. It was totally gross and a shock, yet I couldn't find an attorney to make them accountable. A real nightmare.
This is what happens when you have the worst and most expensive healthcare system in the world. Disgusting
Imagine what would happen if we let them privatize social security . There are people who want to do that.
How did her liver get damaged from giving birth. There's more here that's not being addressed.
We should have formal community & government approval process when these health-care institutions r being bought by private-equity firms. There should also be some post-purchase monitoring/audits procedures to follow.
Sue the hospital, this should never had happened
Condolences to her husband and daughter so sad 😢
They are, they have to go after Steward first.
Hospitals should not be investments😡
Profits have always been put over patients in America. That's not a question. That's a statement.
It should be illegal for Private Equity Investors to buy up housing, food suppliers or health care providers.
This is actually good reporting. I’m shocked. What is wrong with these humans who purchase 40 million dollar yachts while people are dying at their hospitals. That’s terrible and gross. Any human who buys a 40 million dollar anything is not putting any one first. That’s bs
Things like Hospitals & Prisons should NOT be allowed to be owned privately
This is happening all over the country.
I bet the CEO declined an interview. Keep on top of Steward's every move.
I’m sorry but in my general experience medical staff just don’t want to help. I still remember stumbling into an ER after being hit by a car while crossing the street. The doctor literally told me to stop drinking so much and to suck it up despite the bloody mess that was my leg. Heck even when I moved to CT I would get similar recommendations. From when a wound on my leg became infected to when I puked for three days after having the Covid vaccine. Two weeks ago I wrecked my ankle; I suspect it’s PTTD not that anyone will look at it so google is my doctor since it’s the only way I can maybe reduce the damage and not lose the arch in my foot.
Idk maybe it’s just me but it’s frustrating.
It isn't just you. I feel your pain - my local ER doctors especially are awful.
@@ticklemebreathless1394 It actually really frustrates me. I’ve lived in four locations in the last 10 years and I have never received any medical care or check ups. I just get told to suck it up. I know I’ll probably die of medical neglect and that’s frustrating. Especially when I hear of some people getting help for much less than any injury I have.
As a former hospital employee,I can tell you from listening to other staff that their greatest frustration is with patients who, through bad lifestyle choices, have ruined their own health. I don't know your situation, but I can say staff get tired of treating addicts and diabetics who continue to let their health go.
There might need to be better reporting on supply shortages, whether due to supply chain issues or funding problems. Also, could the coil have been shipped from an area hospital? It might have been safer than moving the patient.
There's a much bigger problem here.
Unfortunately this is what healthcare has turned into and it’s very sad and scary. Scary because it’s going to get worse if the right things aren’t done about it.
Omg, for the amount of money we pay for health coverage we should have equipment to stop bleeding
How do you stop “the Borg” aka private equity trusts?
FFS America some things are not supposed to be for profit. Healthcare and prison are two of them.
They try to put a cap on how much nurses/staff make, but no cap on how much CEOs make. That 40 million could have paid for soooooo much!!!
Businesses that own hospitals or clinics do not get it. They replaced RN's at all the clinics with MA's. RNs generally have 4 years of college and MAs have 1 year of training. The medicine mistakes because not understanding the difference is not reported.
I don't understand how a company has "profits" for stakeholders when their bills are unpaid.
Executives always put patients first?? Where's MY 40million$ yacht?????
Private equities will buy up all the businesses in your area and the business can still brag that they're small or family owned. HVAC, roofing, plumbing has gotten so expensive because private equity will buy the businesses in the area, so you can't get a competitive price & it's all expensive services trying to sell you 3x more expensive products on the side like a salesman.
Its all about masshealth. I hate that i dont have a choice between hospitals and most of my providers are Steward health.
We have the worst healthcare 💔
This has been going on for years. Hospitals and long-term care providers have been putting profits ahead care for years. This is why I believe that these places should be nonprofit.
This is heartbreaking! St E’s was a wonderful hospital. I worked agency there and loved it🙁
My heart goes out to the family 💜😢🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
This is tragic for the family.
My hospital recently was running low on fluids and there was no communication as to why. Turns out they weren’t paying the vendor (allegedly). Talked to a friend of mine at another hospital and same thing happened to them.
So sad!
This is healthcare all over the United States!!!!!
Explains what is going on all over America!
Ugh. So sad...
This is unconscionable. We need reform.
Sociopaths. That CEO rides on his yacht and doesn't give a nanoseconds thought to the pain, suffering, and death his greed causes. This isn't housing, retail, restaurants, or anything else done with profit motive in mind. Its life and death.
The US needs a guaranteed healthcare system.
It is not just in one state it is nationwide it is just one anchor sitting at that desk never wanted this story to see the light of day not a male sitting there but you know
Healthcare, water, electricity, military defense should not be profit-making endeavors.
It's the same at all hospitals owned by private equity. Health care is not a commodity and, in first world countries at least, is a right. Profit-making is the exact opposite incentive for a health care business. Even non-profits are not much different; they take the money saved from no taxation to line the owner's pockets anyway. Even worse, the same private equity investors also buy up all the private practices and anything else in the community that has health care offerings so that the population has no choice at all but to be poorly served while being bankrupted. This is not right! This must be remedied and now!
How sad... lookup if Steward has purchased facilities in your state. It looks like they purchased 5 hospitals in mine.
It isnt perfect but Im so glad I live in Canada.
Another mother who should not have died. Dr's should refuse to work for these types of GREEDY HOSPITALS. PUT THEM OUT OF BUSINESS!! They got their money and ran. We are going to see more of this kind of greed.
Sickening. The ceo and his cronies belong in jail.
Maybe people and their healthcare should come before profit. ?
I know, never happen. Profit is the only thing that matters
Sickening. Shame on ouf horrible health-care in this country.