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The line we (Johnson City) were sold is that these hospitals would have gone out of business if they didn't consolidate.
by skgough 3y ago
The line we (Johnson City) were sold is that these hospitals would have gone out of business if they didn't consolidate.
- underlipton 3y ago>Hospital >Business We're supposed to be a developed country.
- Rinzler89 3y agoHospitals are also businesses too in Europe. It's the regulations around the system that make the difference.
- forgetfreeman 3y agoWe were. Then a few decades of legislative capture, private equity, and neoliberal gibberish about "service economies" drained all of the opportunity out of rural and semi-rural America, consolidating what was left in major metro areas.
- shiroiushi 3y agoHospitals are businesses in developed countries too. Here in Japan, the hospitals and clinics are all private businesses, but the prices are very low, ambulance rides are free, etc. The keys, as far as I can tell, are 1) no consolidation/monopolization and 2) lots of regulation.
- rpmisms 3y agoI (Bristol) know a couple Ballad doctors and admins, and that was absolutely the case.
- zaptheimpaler 3y agoI think part of it is that insurance companies gouge hospitals too. They are an even bigger monopoly with a lot of leverage against any ordinary city hospital.