Atlanta Medical Center Closure

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Can you imagine telling a car manufacturer that the car that they sold for 25K last year must be sold for 10 percent less this year and the upcoming 4 years while having more standard features and an extended warranty. Can you see what that would look like?

The Japanese auto boom of the 1970s and 1980s? 😉

 

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The Japanese auto boom of the 1970s and 1980s? 😉

I was thinking the same thing. "The history of economics of the last 200 years". The same hour equivalent of unskilled labor today can buy multiples of whatever it could buy in the 1970s.

 

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Greener pastures

Wellstar looks to add hospitals 8 weeks after closing Atlanta Medical Center - Becker's Hospital Review | Healthcare News & Analysis

Marietta, Ga.-based Wellstar Health System closed its 460-bed Atlanta Medical Center Nov. 1, a move deemed abrupt by many community stakeholders. On Dec. 27, the health system announced plans to partner with a health system 150 miles away to "expand access to quality care for all Georgians."

www.beckershospitalreview.com

 

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Greener pastures

Wellstar looks to add hospitals 8 weeks after closing Atlanta Medical Center - Becker's Hospital Review | Healthcare News & Analysis

Marietta, Ga.-based Wellstar Health System closed its 460-bed Atlanta Medical Center Nov. 1, a move deemed abrupt by many community stakeholders. On Dec. 27, the health system announced plans to partner with a health system 150 miles away to "expand access to quality care for all Georgians."

www.beckershospitalreview.com

Man must have been tough to announce that partnership with a straight face. Am I missing something or is a payor mix of 22% commercial insurance still terrible?