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On his Not Running a Hospital blog, Paul Levy discussed reasons for concern when private equity firms purchase and operate hospitals.  He u...

In the US, it has become the accepted wisdom that health care is now an industry, not a calling or a profession, and the health care it prod...

Health care is drowning in a sea of hype and spin.  We have frequently posted about deceptive marketing used to sell drugs, devices, and h...

The use of advertising by Steward Health Care, currently a regional hospital system here in New England, continues to provide lessons about ...

Negotiations between a local RI hospital system and the largest RI health insurer have now become very public. An advertising campaign by th...

In a single sentence, a short, obscure article in the Worcester (MA) Business Journal on life at a community hospital after a for-profit cor...

Last year, we noted concerns about the againy fashionable practice of for-profit corporations taking over previously not-for-profit hospita...

A long time ago, practicing physicians were mainly self-employed solo practitioners. As health care became more bureaucratic, physicians for...

There seems to be a small surge of stories about conflicts of interest regarding health care affecting government leaders who can affect hea...

A few months ago, we discussed the revolving door that seems to connect US government leadership positions and leadership positions of comm...