Our San Francisco Medical center, which is one of the best ones in the country is a public institution and they are merging it with Stanford, a private institution. It effects health services for the San Francisco area, but they are also doing that to all of our med schools in the state. We provide public healthcare, and by merging us with private entities we're slowly changing the face of healthcare in California. Other states are seeing the same type of thing. The U.S. is moving towards privatization.
Corporations have such a strong stance here.
Just as corporations are getting tax breaks at a national level, they have an influence on universities now. They are the ones giving money to research in the universities. It's a corporate takeover which is hand in hand with the privatization. The corporations use the universities as their research labs and negotiate with universites over findings and patents. Across the board.