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carol1983 Wrote: Aug 31, 2010 8:29 AM
Hospitals that treat these people are closing too and being purchased by private medical groups. There are approximately 5000 community owned hospitals left in the usa.
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CVN65 Wrote: Aug 31, 2010 8:46 AM
Carol, that trend has been ongoing for many years. All of these little hospitals have to affiliate with or be acquired by larger institutions because they can not provide advanced cardiac care among other services. As technology has become more expensive and necessary, the cost of doing business has risen above a break-even point (since the little hospitals do not have the numbers of patients to justify expenses such as a cath lab or open heart team). I do agree that the medicare cuts will definitely kill the little guys and hurt the big guys.
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