Comments on: Palin’s Conservative Ideology Is An Obstacle To Real Health Care Reform http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2008/09/02/palin-con-laws/ Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:42:01 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: stateofthedivision http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2008/09/02/palin-con-laws/comment-page-1/#comment-2138 stateofthedivision Wed, 03 Sep 2008 03:32:44 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/wonkroom/2008/09/02/palin-con-laws/#comment-2138 I worked in hospitals in Virginia, a CON state, and Texas, a non-CON state. In Texas anyone can put up anything medical, at any time. Doctors pulled out most of the profitable hospital work. They have outpatient services, testing, and surgery in their doctor owned corporations. Everyone competes like heck for 70% of people with health insurance and avoids the other 30% like the plague. The nonprofit hospital ER gets much of the uninsured medical care. I doubt a town with 100,000 people in Virginia has 5 MRI's. Hopefully the hyper-competition between doctors and hospitals doesn't hit Virginia. It's harmed care in my part of Texas. I worked in hospitals in Virginia, a CON state, and Texas, a non-CON state. In Texas anyone can put up anything medical, at any time. Doctors pulled out most of the profitable hospital work. They have outpatient services, testing, and surgery in their doctor owned corporations.

Everyone competes like heck for 70% of people with health insurance and avoids the other 30% like the plague. The nonprofit hospital ER gets much of the uninsured medical care.

I doubt a town with 100,000 people in Virginia has 5 MRI’s. Hopefully the hyper-competition between doctors and hospitals doesn’t hit Virginia. It’s harmed care in my part of Texas.

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