How Big Medicine is hurting patients and putting small practices out of business
Recently the CEO of a large health care network stated: “Market forces don’t apply to health care.”
Of course, economic and political forces apply to health care. Big Medicine’s most powerful entities (insurers, hospitals, medical schools, pharmaceutical companies, pharmacies, and government agencies) formulate health care policy to enrich themselves at the expense of patients and small, independent medical practices.
As an independent family doctor, my practice’s existence is in jeopardy. Small physician …