“Public hospitals fail while retail clinics grow.”
Sad commentary on the retail clinic boom.
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The man’s a communist. He sees someone succeeding feeling a need and he feels and overwhelming urge to stop them.
Of course the for-profit providers try to go where there aren’t price controls. The problem isn’t the providers, or there profits, it is the price controls.
The problem isn’t cherry picking, or that their are cherries to be picked, but that some needing services are turned into bad fruit by an inadequate reimbursement system.
Geriatrics need not be inherently unprofitable–half the wealth in the country is owned by people over 65–it is medicare that makes it unprofitable.
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