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“Hospital Mergers Kill”: An Economists’ Exercise in Reality Distortion

The Health Care Blog

By JEFF GOLDSMITH In late June, 2024, two economists, Zarek Brot-Goldberg and Zack Cooper, from the University of Chicago and Yale respectively, released an economic analysis arguing that hospital mergers damage local economies and result in an increase in deaths by suicide and drug overdoses in the markets where mergers occur.

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Raspberry Pi Health Care

The Health Care Blog

And, of course, easier to relate to healthcare. We buy them already designed and built, complete with an operating system and other useful software. Between 2006 and 2011, Eben Upton and his collaborators sought to change this. Healthcare has a fledgling DIY movement ( DIY pancreas , anyone?) Where’s our $5 MRI?”