One of the biggest crisis in healthcare….those not “bought and paid for” by big hospitals are dwindling. And rapidly.
https://www.medpagetoday.com/special-reports/features/115804?xid=nl_mpt_investigative2025-06-04&mh=22c3cd8ebe0a923b5ca6e6e20f1222e0&zdee=gAAAAABm4uK279jdo8CafLOm4JPz0sgm8eROJ6H7GdfxGvH9_dh-e3vaHvPfFgfVvLTOrVxu7IzgOZjaDOo5SqXSuPk5o185gqPs7KYIv4wO-rjbk3ZgvV0%3D&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=InvestivativeMD_06042025&utm_term=NL_Gen_Int_InvestigateMD_Active
What the last 5 years have taught us is that most of healthcare is a gross mess of follow the leader, even when the leader is marching you into a fire pit of gross negligence and carrying picket signs that say “we are doing as we were told”.
The problem with hospital owned providers and the rapid dwindle of private practices is that the ability to think independently and NOT be forced to do what the corporate suite of executives tell you to do is going by the wayside. Why did we have such mass compliance with every ridiculous covid rule? Most of them didn’t have the option to stand up and disagree without getting fired. Most of them bought in and believe the nonsense they were told to regurgitate. Private practices are not as lucrative as hospital based medicine. Overhead is high, reimbursement is low, and many cannot afford to stay open. All by design. Eliminate the independent free thinkers.
Regulations and lousy reimbursements are what drive doctors out.
And people want centralized health care?
also, the link you posted could be greatly shortened by removing everything starting with the question mark onwards to the end.
all that is PHP tracking code, which may benefit whatever page attached it, but is totally unnecessary for the end user.
every now and then you still see php code that does something functional like the timestamp you can add to a YouTube URL, but most of it these days is just used to track where clicks came from.