Tennessee Gives This Hospital Monopoly an A Grade — Even When It Reports Failure
Tennessee Gives This Hospital Monopoly an A Grade — Even When It Reports Failure
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Ballad Health, a 20-hospital system in Tennessee and Virginia, benefits from the largest state-sanctioned hospital monopoly in the United States and is the only option for hospital care for a large swath of Appalachia.
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I have family that live there now. All I hear from them anytime we talk or visit is how bad Ballad is since they took over the local hospital systems.
Healthcare is so tricky because many of the insurers have near-monopolies. This encourages hospitals to merge to get more negotiating power and then you risk stuff like this happening