Next Shift with Gabriel Winant
The Dig
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What's Wrong With Health Care Costs?
The health care reform of the 1980s was intended to make hospitals more efficient and productive. Instead, it created a market in high reimbursing interventions that were dominated by well-capitalized institutions like pittsburg hospital. The wealthy academic hospitals are able to buy them up where they think there's an advantage in controlling the market or even close them down. This is really the vulgar shock coming to the health care system," he says.
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