Category Archives: Health System Mergers
What would Teddy do? bust hospital trusts
“Corporations engaged in interstate commerce should be regulated if they are found to exercise a license working to the public injury.” President Theodore Roosevelt. (He filed anti-trust actions against 44 corporations while in office.) Flash forward 120 years. Today, we … Read the rest
Sen. Feyen: Issues to tackle
Health Care Costs, Health System Mergers, Partisan Politics, University of Wisconsin System, Washington County, West Bend, Wisconsin Surplus
Welcome to West Bend, State Senator Dan Feyen (pictured below). And thanks to the opportunity to respond to your survey about the highest needs for public policy in Wisconsin. My response is below. You replaced Duey Strobel as the senator … Read the rest
Repeat history: create health care ‘PSC’
In the absence of legislative or executive oversight and governance of the over-priced healthcare systems in Wisconsin, the concept of treating medical corporations as utilities becomes ever more necessary. Consolidations and mergers have made most Wisconsinites subject to oligopolies, duopolies … Read the rest
Health care needs PSC regulation
It has become perfectly obvious in Wisconsin and the country that not much has worked to bring down the soaring health care prices that are bankrupting families and damaging the financial health of small and medium companies. An increasing number … Read the rest
Price controls next for Wisconsin hospitals?
Is the Medical Industrial Complex (MIC) in Wisconsin headed for price controls? Ford Koles, a leading health care economist and guru for the Advisory Board, told Wisconsin self-insured companies last week in Madison that he thinks it could happen. And … Read the rest
Felzkowski leads on health care pricing
How to keep score on how Wisconsin is doing on health care for its citizens? It’s a tough question. And it’s a preeminent question. It deals with all-important family health and with family prosperity, since health and wealth run together. … Read the rest
Will the latest hospital merger help consumers?
Will patients/consumers of Froedtert Health and ThedaCare be better off after the just announced merger of the two Wisconsin health systems? Will Wisconsin Attorney General Joshua Kaul exercise any of his authorized oversight of the merger for the benefit of … Read the rest
Put a stop to hospital merger mania
Merger mania for Wisconsin hospital corporations came to a crescendo last week without even a sniff of interest from the state’s regulators. The merger of Bellin Health of Green Bay and Gunderson Health of La Crosse was finalized last week, … Read the rest
