Medical industrial complex

The medical industrial complex is a network of corporations and institutions which supply healthcare services and products for profit and at the expense of promoting care and wellness; complex, overlapping web of eugenics, charity and ableism, population control, and desirability - Abolition & Disability Justice Collective and the work of Mia Mingus, Patty Berne, and Cara Page, adapted by Michelle Xie

Examples of the medical industrial complex

Targeting oppressed populations	Black people were experimented on to advance medicine. Some medical professionals deny queer and trans communities care, or try to 'covert' them to heterosexual. Indigenous women face forced sterilization.
Ableism	Disabled bodies are targeted as something to fix.
For-profit health care	Health care services such as dental, vision, nutrition, mental health and physical therapy are part of for-profit health care; they are only available to those who can pay for them.

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