SHAMELESS TEASER
My wife and I are excited about a BIG EVENT upstate tomorrow, though we are not at liberty to disclose what it is. When it happens, it will be obvious why it had to be kept secret beforehand. Then why mention it now? It's a shameless teaser, posted in the hope you'll return in a couple of days to see what happened. and what condition we're in. STAY TUNED!
Dio
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Dio
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NY Times
ReplyDeletehttps://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/14/health/hospital-mergers-health-care-spending.html
When Hospitals Merge to Save Money, Patients Often Pay More
By Reed Abelson Nov. 14, 2018
(quoted Excerpt):
"The nation’s hospitals have been merging at a rapid pace for a decade, forming powerful organizations that influence nearly every health care decision consumers make.
The hospitals have argued that consolidation benefits consumers with cheaper prices from coordinated services and other savings.
But an analysis conducted for The New York Times shows the opposite to be true in many cases. The mergers have essentially banished competition and raised prices for hospital admissions in most cases, according to an examination of 25 metropolitan areas with the highest rate of consolidation from 2010 through 2013, a peak period for mergers."
[and]
"The new research confirms growing skepticism among consumer health groups and lawmakers about the enormous clout of the hospital groups. While most political attention has focused on increased drug prices and the Affordable Care Act, state and federal officials are beginning to look more closely at how hospital mergers are affecting spiraling health care costs.:
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this is especially true in New York State and NYC where the Berger commission essentially took a wrecking ball to the non-profit Hospitals throughout the state. Our area in Kingston is just one example. Massive public tax money (over a hundred million thus far allocated since 2006) wasted to fix a system that wasn't broken.
Read the full article from the NY Times here:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/14/health/hospital-mergers-health-care-spending.html