There is another indication that push back against the power of large health care organizations is getting more significant. In February, 20...
Showing posts with label concentration of power. Show all posts
Showing posts with label concentration of power. Show all posts
The Push Back Continues: the Mayor of Pittsburgh Sues UPMC Claiming it is No "Public Charity"
There is another indication that push back against the power of large health care organizations is getting more significant. In February, 20...
The Pittsburgh Experiment - II - Another Echo of the Fall of AHERF
We recently started a series of posts about the battle for domination of health care in western Pennsylvania. The contenders are the UPMC ...
The Pittsburgh Experiment - I - Caught in the Crossfire
In our increasingly dysfunctional health care system, patients, health care professionals and the public are often caught in the crossfire b...
"It's All Been Done Before," If We Only Could Remember What it Was - the AHERF Example
Blood Money at the Border - The Red Cross and a Local Blood Bank Fight Over Donors
Writing in our local Providence Journal, Felice Freyer reported on a story that becomes less bewildering when viewed in the context of how ...
The Restless Shade of AHERF and the Return of Merger Mania: Highmark Tries to Buy Another Insurance Company, a Hospital System, a Medical School, and Physicians' Practices
Starting in the 1990s, as US health care became more commercialized, a wave of mergers lead to super-sized hospital systems, insurance compa...
How Large Health Care Organizations Set the "Rules of the Game" to Dominate Health Care
The notion that health care is increasingly "dominated by large, bureaucratic organizations which do not honor ... [its] core values...
The Rise of the Corporate Physician - the End of the (Health Care) World As We Know It?
In discussing how concentration and abuse of power threatens health care professionals' values and professionalism, we have discussed h...
