This isn’t capitalism. It’s criminal neglect. From the Globe: “The Spotlight Team identified at least 15 instances in which Steward patients died after failing to receive professionally accepted standards of care due to equipment issues or staffing shortages. This total omits deaths due to individual lapses in judgment or medical errors in order to focus on the real, systemic Steward scandal, the one driven by radical under-investment by management in hospitals that mainly serve patients on the lower end of the economic spectrum — often those most in need of care.’

The team cites staff shortages in critical areas, surgeries canceled due to stiffed vendors not delivering vital equipment, medical tests delayed, hospital personnel scrounging for basic supplies (including toilet paper), etc. etc. All while its CEO and investors played shell games to reap huge “profits” from the formerly non-profit hospitals.