NYT: Hospitals Get Bailed Out While Independent MD's Struggle

Doctors Without Patients: ‘Our Waiting Rooms Are Like Ghost Towns.’ As visits plummet because of the coronavirus, small physician practices are struggling to survive. www.nytimes.com “Here’s the scary thing — as these practices start to break down and go bankrupt, we could have more consolidation among the health care systems,” Dr. Crow said. That concerns health economists, who say the steady rise in costs is linked to the clout these big hospital networks wield with private insurers to charge high prices.
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