Der_Missionar OP t1_iya9asx wrote
Reply to comment by AbsentEmpire in As Western Pa. hospitals expand, fears grow over higher health care costs, and Wolf's plan to address the situation by Der_Missionar
It's actually VERY NEW to have an insurance company OWN the hospitals and the doctors offices. Up until a few years ago, this never happened.
Insurance was insurance, hospitals and doctors were hospitals and doctors. Now it's all intermingled. So... That's an ongoing discussion in the government. Don't you remember the BIG TODO with UPMC refusing to cover anything in Allegheny Health Network?
This is the stuff of anti-trust lawsuits going on right now.
So, yeah, insurance never owned the doctors offices and hospitals before.
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