Your doctor doesn’t work for you now. They work for a corporate cartel
When a patient walks into a local medical clinic, they assume the person making the decisions about their care is the physician wearing the white coat. Increasingly, that assumption is dead wrong. Behind the scenes, the person calling the shots is a corporate bean-counter working for a massive, vertically integrated insurance cartel thousands of miles away.
TL;DR
- More than 82% of U.S. physicians are now employed by corporate entities or hospital systems.
- This corporate consolidation has replaced the traditional model of independent private practice.
- Decision-making in healthcare is increasingly influenced by corporate entities rather than physicians.
- The bipartisan Break Up Big Medicine Act is a legislative response to this trend.