Judd Legum

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3. Between 2010 and 2020 there were more than 680 hospital mergers. Over the same time period, "at least 120 rural hospitals have shuttered." This has coincided with a vertical acquisition of other health care facilities and providers by hospitals. https://t.co/yWjffhFiai — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Jan. 20, 2022

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2. There are FAR FEWER hospital beds in the US today than there were just a few decades ago. In 1975, when the country had 113 million fewer people, there were 1.5 million hospital beds in the US. Today, there are just over 900,000. What happened? https://t.co/yWjffhFiai — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Jan. 20, 2022

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4. Large hospital networks divert patients from hospitals to other facilities where costs are lower and margins are higher That's not a bad thing in itself. But they are also reducing the # of beds which left the country ill-prepared for the pandemic https://t.co/yWjffhFiai — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Jan. 20, 2022