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quackpot1 year, 3 months ago

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Meanwhile, private hospitals are using monopolistic business practices to rake in record profits. For example, Carilion Health System in Virginia had profits of more than $100 million last year.

They did so by assimilating nearly all of the small local practices then raising the prices charged for procedures by several fold.

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  elmiko1 year, 3 months ago
  
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  Wow. I had no idea that hospitals were trying to monopolize the market.
  
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  Wolfie20071 year, 3 months ago
  
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  Didn't I hear the hospital where Michelle Obama sits on the board voted ,with Michelle saying, yes, to send the poor patients to another hospital?
  
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