The Raveling Medicine Show 0
Your for-profit hospitals are at work, demonstating how competition lowers prices.
A nugget from a long story in the Charlotte Observer:
It’s true for services ranging from heart tests to routine office visits. And it’s part of a national shift that experts say is raising costs but not quality.
Hospitals are increasingly buying doctors’ practices, then sending bills for routine services that are significantly higher than those charged by independent doctors.
Just gotta pay for those country club memberships so the hospital administrators can get their exercise.
We need single payer.
