Many Small Health Systems Have Been Hoovered Up. Rejecting This Fate, Rural Oregon Hospitals Are Uniting.
https://www.wweek.com/news/health/2026/09/01/many-small-health-systems-have-been-hoovered-up-rejecting-this-fate-rural-oregon-hospitals-are-uniting/
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schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 7d
Almost makes one suspect that capitalism is explicitly bad at providing comprehensive and affordable healthcare.
empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 7d
Capitalism is extremely bad at providing any service or product with inelastic demand or geographic/infrastructure dependent consumption. Which is to say nearly all of them
schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 7d
My local hospital system keeps getting bought by larger and larger organizations. All I've noticed is that keep squeezing primary doctors because I almost never saw the same one twice--they were either so booked they couldn't see me for 3 weeks or they'd left. I finally switched to local clinic that has NONE of the resources or expertise of a hospital--maybe an X-Ray machine--but they have a NP that has been there for over 10 years.
ThorrJo@lemmy.sdf.org · 1 pts · 7d
The same site published an article a couple months ago about how private equity vultures are aggressively buying up those exact type of clinics to strip-mine them for their patient relationships while in many cases closing the clinic within a couple years 🙁
HubertManne@piefed.social · 2 pts · 7d
its fine for things that are unimportant. toys and such.