Once again, we should consider the influence of special interest groups and their vast financial resources. How could hospitals run and owned by physicians be any worse than those run by private equity? This issue is not about the well-being of all Americans, but rather about maximizing patient revenue at the expense of providing high-quality, affordable, and safe care. Dutch RojasGe BaiChris DeaconJeffrey HoganStacy RichterChris SkisakDan BurkeScott Conard, MDDave Chase, Health Rosetta-discovering archaeologistDavid ContornoRob Marty, DBA, MHALarry BeckerStacy Mays
Congress Moves to Continue Ban Physician-Owned Hospitals: Who Needs Doctors Running Hospitals Anyway? In a stunning display of bureaucratic brilliance, Congress has decided to extend the moratorium on physician-owned hospitals. Because, you know, the last thing we need is doctors running hospitals. Who needs medical expertise when you have more red tape and less competition? According to the geniuses behind this decision, allowing doctors to own hospitals would be a disaster. Imagine the chaos if physicians dared to provide high-quality, affordable care to their patients. It's a nightmare scenario that would surely lead to the downfall of our healthcare system. But fear not, dear citizens, for Congress has your best interests at heart. Keeping the moratorium in place ensures that only the most qualified and experienced bureaucrats can dictate how healthcare should be run. Who needs doctors making decisions about patient care when you can have a committee of politicians and lobbyists calling the shots? Let's not forget the real reason behind this decision: protecting the interests of corporate healthcare giants. After all, we wouldn't want a few pesky doctors disrupting the cozy relationship between Big Pharma and Big Insurance. It's much better to keep the status quo, where profits come before patients and healthcare is a commodity to be traded on the stock market. So, let's toast Congress for its unwavering commitment to mediocrity and corporate greed. Here's to another decade of the moratorium on physician-owned hospitals, ensuring the American healthcare system remains a shining beacon of inefficiency and inequality. At least we can all rest easy knowing that our elected officials are hard at work, protecting us from the evils of doctor-run hospitals. After all, who needs affordable, high-quality healthcare when you can have more bureaucracy and less competition? #healthcare #sattirebutnot https://buff.ly/4cvP5HC
Neither option is inherently “bad.” Nor is supposed “not for profit “ ,payors who own health systems ,health systems that own payors or health systems buying up smaller facilities .Numerous forms of the “vertical integration “ that so many rail about . It is all about understanding the business model with its inherent potential flaws and strengths.From there creating the needed points of alignment and accountability supported by clinical and financial audit practices and protocols. Each model and instance must be considered for what it adds hurts or changes in the context of the local overall delivery system.Does it improve quality , access , patient and/or provider experience ?If so, how and why and with what quantifiable and qualifiable measures?What does it do to the cost of services ? I still prefer the the independent multispecialty provider group model
True. at one time it was thought that physician self-referral to hospitals would lead to profiteering. which is exactly what VC and corporations are doing
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Agree with you, Peter Hayes... banning physician ownership might have made sense pre-private equity and monster health systems, but it doesn't make sense now.
Larry Becker
2w
There are grocery coops. There are companies that are bought out by employees. What other game changing examples of change of owner are there?
Thanks for posting Peter Hayes. This makes no sense. None.
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2wPerhaps we should start a middle class preservation fund and every time a special interest group supports and enforces rules and laws that contribute to destroying the middle class they have to put an equal amount in finding ways to support those they are bankrupting. Again I ask who is protecting the middle class? Innovation in healthcare to reduce disease and cost would be a great idea.