How Parasitic Capitalism Is Making the Elkhorn Nursing Home Outbreak Worse (Seeing Red Nebraska)

Preston Forrest is the 87-year-old fundamentalist multi-billionaire who founded Life Care Centers of America, the largest private nursing home chain in the United States. Life Care runs the nursing home in Elkhorn, where two out of three residents have tested positive for coronavirus and five people have died. It also runs Life Care Center in Kirkland, Washington, one of the nation’s first COVID hot spots, where 35 people have died.

In what remotely healthy society does a person become a multi-billionaire running facilities that care for the elderly?

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