This is where US Healthcare is right now
 

Emails Show How Millions Flowed to ‘Political Consultants’ in Malta Hospital Corruption Case - OCCRP

Good lord, Stewart Healthcare should be dissolved and sued into oblivion

WTF are they thinking??

Not good, but there are bigger problems with the heathcare system than that. Like will there be any qualified doctors 25 years from now?

UCLA medical students now fail basic tests of medical competence

Yup. Show me anyone that is needing a bypass if they ask "what is the racial makeup of my surgeon" vs "how good is my surgeon".

Steward implosion provides cautionary tale on private equity in health care - Lown Institute
Private Equity Firms are stripping hospitals of value. Basically just like Red Lobster! But screwing with peoples and community health modern day Robber Barons.

There was a recent story in The NY Times about how Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs) are actually driving up out of pocket costs for prescriptions. It describes the game of drug companies inflating the cost of name brand drugs, how PBMs then negotiate the price down and collect 10% of the savings, and the customer ends up paying a higher overall price with their copay or does not get the opportunity to buy generic through their plan.

I was amazed to see how interconnected the whole business is from Insurance companies through national pharmacies.

I used to live a block away from St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Brighton, MA. It's also where one of the country's top orthopedic surgeons during the 1980's completed work on my damaged leg and arm. Now, this hospital which has served its community since 1868 (not a typo) is at risk of closing because of Steward Health. It's already impacted the employees, some of whom have taken jobs somewhere else just to avoid layoffs and department closures. That means there's a shortage there, and it's too risky to take a job there if it could end in another week.

It was, up until a couple of years ago, one of the top 50 cardiac care hospitals in the country.