Senior Center Defends Physician-Owned Hospitals Against Efforts to Close Them Down

A white paper by the Senior Center for Health and Security, a national organization based in Reston, Va., is endorsing physician-owned hospitals against proposals to “drive them completely out of existence,” according to a release from Senior Center for Health and Security.

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The group says a provision to restrict physician-owned hospitals in the current health reform bill in the U.S. House of Representatives is the “first step in Medicare rationing.”

The release says the white paper — “Why America Needs More Physician Hospitals!”— reports that a Consumer Reports study ranks physician hospitals No. 1 in 19 of the 33 states in which they operate and near the top in the other states where they operate.

Read the Senior Center for Health and Security’s release on the high quality of physician-owned hospitals.

Read the center’s white paper, “Why America Needs More Physician Hospitals!

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