re: #502 iossarian

You could take a different view of this story: what is the need for new hospitals? After all, if the result of the bill is to reduce waste in the overall healthcare system, you would expect it to result in reduced levels of certain activities.

Without being a huge expert on the intricacies of healthcare costs, I do know that one of the sources of inefficiency in the US system is that physicians are incentivized to set up their own private speciality clinics, to which they can then refer patients and thus milk the insurance companies, when there might be other forms of treatment that would be equally effective but cheaper.

maybe the new hospitals are for the 30million new patients…I dunno