Showing posts with label concentration of power. Show all posts
Showing posts with label concentration of power. Show all posts

Monday, May 18, 2015

The Push Back Continues: the Mayor of Pittsburgh Sues UPMC Claiming it is No "Public Charity"

There is another indication that push back against the power of large health care organizations is getting more significant. In February, ...
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Tuesday, May 12, 2015

The Adventures of the Purloined Bequest, the Resident Heiress, and the Hidden Hospital System

The game is afoot again.  A series of recent articles in the media described a series of cases whose mysterious interrelationships Sherlock ...
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Monday, May 11, 2015

Who Knew? ... Judge Finds that Hospital Takeover of Medical Practices Raised Prices

A story that caused only a few ripples in the media in late January, 2014, corroborates concerns about the increasing concentration of power...
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Sunday, May 10, 2015

No Fooling - When a Retired Conservative Politician Warns About Oligarchy...

then things must be getting really bad. Of course, we have been warning about oligarchy , and related issues such as concentration of powe...
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Friday, May 8, 2015

Planned Obsolescence Disguised as Innovation, Oligopoly Disguised as a Free Market, and the Enrichment of Oligarchs

The New York Times published another article in its series on the high cost of US health care.  This one, focused on the care of type 1 di...
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Sunday, April 8, 2012

The Pittsburgh Experiment - II - Another Echo of the Fall of AHERF

We recently started a series of posts about the battle for domination of health care in western Pennsylvania.  The contenders are the UPMC ...
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Thursday, April 5, 2012

The Pittsburgh Experiment - I - Caught in the Crossfire

In our increasingly dysfunctional health care system, patients, health care professionals and the public are often caught in the crossfire b...
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