There is another indication that push back against the power of large health care organizations is getting more significant. In February, 20...
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Showing posts with label oligopoly. 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...
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...
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...
ACO = Arrogant Clinical or Aggressive Care Oligopoly?
In the 1970s, it was managed care organizations. In the 1990s, it was vertically integrated health care systems. In the 2010s, the fashion...
More on Hospital Market Dominance, Enabled by Secret Pricing
This week two more articles appeared describing how large hospital systems use market dominance to charge more. Naturally, both were in new...
"Trouble Coming Every Day" as Discussed by our Fellow Health Care Skeptics
With apologies to the late Frank Zappa... even though we are going through the dog days of summer, the parade of health care troubles in the...
More Examples of US Hospital Market Consolidation: Connecticut and Florida
Two recent stories from two different parts of the US continue the theme of ever increasing concentration of power in our health care system...
Slouching, or "Moving Towards ... Oligopoly"
A report by Bloomberg on a prediction that the US attempt at health care reform will lead to more concentration of power among health insur...
