Next Shift with Gabriel Winant
The Dig
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How Did the Industrialization Take Shape?
A major federal overhaul in the 19 eighties was intended to control costs by discouraging long hospital stays, but inadvertently promoted more aggressive medical interventions. In doing so, it also set off a massive consolidation of health care benefiting corporate health empires that emerged from prestigious, academic medical centers. How did this, how did this next intense phase of consolidation take shape? This system of expanding medical centrs on the one hand, in dying community hospitals on the other,. all against the back drop of post post volcar shock ragin era social state retrenchment.? Yes, so i think let's start, let's start with that last point.
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