Washington Examiner March 14, 2023
You can have all the money you want in your health savings account, but if there is only one hospital system in your city, then you really have no choice at all. You are going to pay the price that hospital dictates and see the doctor they tell you to see.
Unless we can find a way to roll back the consolidation feeding frenzy of the past two decades, patients will never be empowered to find the care they want at prices that are affordable to them.
There have been almost 2,000 hospital mergers over the last 20 years, reducing the number of hospitals from around 8,000 in 2020 to around 6,000 today. There have been tens of thousands more...