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Eh, hospitals are the practice location of last resort after they wipe out independent practices in their local areas. Doctors are totally fungible to a dominan
by llamaimperative 2y ago
Eh, hospitals are the practice location of last resort after they wipe out independent practices in their local areas. Doctors are totally fungible to a dominant health system. A dime a dozen.
As a hospital, they also have no incentive to treat people earlier in disease progression with less expensive care or anything. Just let the ailments fester until they have to be rescued with the most expensive interventions on the planet.
No one said anything about "not turning a profit." If you think a profit-seeking organization exists only to turn a profit, you misunderstand the enterprise.
- s1artibartfast 2y agoI think you are being intentionally combative, uncurious, and condescending. You are not engaging with the question posed, merely listing a number of cynicisms tangential at best, or factually incorrect at worst. Independent practices generally cant operate licensed residency programs. Similarly, your model of hospital behavior ironically requires them to forgo money could make today to cash in on expensive interventions decades in the future - exactly what you claim they are incapable of doing. Last, you claim doctors are a dime a dozen, yet hospitals pay 4, 5, or 600k to employ them, and frequently close due to an inability to secure them at reasonable costs.