Magdalena Carrasco, a former San Jose councilmember, once joined protests against one company’s hold over health care on the East Side. Today she’s helping behemoth HCA Healthcare make its most criticized move yet. Carrasco, who left office in 2022 after serving two terms as East San Jose’s representative, now lobbies city officials and her former colleagues on behalf of HCA, which owns Regional Medical Center — the only hospital in East San Jose. The company plans to cut trauma, stroke and heart attack care at Regional while expanding Good Samaritan Hospital which serves the wealthier West Valley. The Nashville-based company needed a…
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