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E.Central MN | The large hospital networks have been battling to get as many patients into their network as possible. I'd guess that drives efficiencies for their main hospitals. I think some of those construction projects in the rural hospitals are an investment by those large networks to get those hospitals to enter partnerships with the networks. A very small town near here had a small clinic not much bigger than a two-car garage. In a span of a couple years, two new clinics were built there -- one connected to a network hospital 40 miles west of there, and one connected to a network hospital in the Twin Cities. That doesn't make a lot of sense for a health care system that says it's short of money. It makes more sense if you look at it as companies engaging in little territorial monopolies. I don't know what the answer is. | |
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