Rochester Beacon (https://rochesterbeacon.com/category/health-science/page/2/)
It will take a lot of faith to support the New York State Health Act, a proposal to establish a single-payer system in New York. Can a single-payer plan achieve universal coverage? What would be required to implement the plan? And, if implemented, can it save money or, at least, break even?
Faced with rising costs and declining payments, a growing number of doctors in private practice are quitting the fight. Remaining private practitioners increasingly are driven by economics to form or join large group practices.
We stand watch at Obamacare’s bedside today, filled with uncertainty about the timing of its demise and what will follow. This is likely to be a bad death, filled with misery and leaving behind discord.
In 1990, there were 13 private, independent hospitals in Monroe County and the five counties that surround it. Today, nearly all these local hospitals have become part of either Rochester Regional Health or the University of Rochester system.