In the 90s we started losing out community based independent hospitals to mega health systems that were buying them all up. This should have NEVER been allowed. There is an illusion of choice in healthcare today, and this has driven up costs because there's no competition anymore. By me, I had 6 hospitals within 20-minute drive. One is shuttered, and the other 5 are owned by one of the 3 mega healthcare system. Rural hospitals really got screwed because they were basically boxed out by the mega systems so they would close down, or they were just bought out and turned into out patient clinics. Healthcare in America is a fucking money making Juggernaut, and patient care is assigned a dollar value.
Now that we all know (or at least most of us here), we can start to change that. I personally don't rely on health or dental insurance or any of the medical systems.
I do alternative and I have a holistic doctor with bio-feedback machine. Take care of most problems myself with natural meds.
In the 90s we started losing out community based independent hospitals to mega health systems that were buying them all up. This should have NEVER been allowed. There is an illusion of choice in healthcare today, and this has driven up costs because there's no competition anymore. By me, I had 6 hospitals within 20-minute drive. One is shuttered, and the other 5 are owned by one of the 3 mega healthcare system. Rural hospitals really got screwed because they were basically boxed out by the mega systems so they would close down, or they were just bought out and turned into out patient clinics. Healthcare in America is a fucking money making Juggernaut, and patient care is assigned a dollar value.
Private equity in healthcare has contributed to thus utter disaster as well.
Now that we all know (or at least most of us here), we can start to change that. I personally don't rely on health or dental insurance or any of the medical systems.
I do alternative and I have a holistic doctor with bio-feedback machine. Take care of most problems myself with natural meds.