To begin to fix health care start by fixing this nonsensical rule
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About half of all Americans report struggline to pay for medical care. There's no simple solution to fixing our broken health care system but there is one easy place to start.
When it comes to evaluating the impact of physician-owned hospitals, the data are overwhelmingly in favor of them. David N. Bernstein, MD, MBA, MEI is a resident physician at the Harvard Combined Orthopaedic Residency Program at Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and Boston Children’s Hospital and a senior researcher in health care transformation at Harvard Business School. Follow him at @DNBernsteinMD.
Tucked away in the massive Affordable Care Act – commonly known as ObamaCare -- was the small, seemingly insignificant provision that banned physicians from building or owning hospitals. The same provision also prohibited physicians who already owned hospitals before 2010 to expand. So, while lawyers can own law firms, plumbers can own plumbing companies, chefs can own restaurants, and so on, doctors can no longer own their own hospitals. Doesn’t make sense, does it?