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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (9464)	9/14/2009 10:06:19 AM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

Cannot doctors practice well either on salary or as small business owners? Obviously they should have that choice. But there is a quality that changes when the hospital (or a large group) takes over the practice. Some would argue it is "for the better", but to me, I just think it has a different "feel" to it. You know it the instant you walk in the door. Just a lot more impersonal.

To: Lane3 who wrote (9464)	9/14/2009 10:22:31 AM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

Why is that inherently sad. Frankly it's not just medicine, it's happened across many industries as business has consolidated into larger players over the past 3-4 generations. I'm old enough to remember a family owned pharmacy on almost every corner... now that is a rarity. There were big retailers but also lots of room for many smaller retailers. Motels were mostly independent... now chains. Same with restaurants, gas stations. Across all these industries we used to have independent business owners and now we have mostly large public companies and employees. It would be more surprising if medicine wasn't a part of this consolidation than that it is. Sad? I think so. We've become more efficient but lost a bit of our soul.