Thanks, Thom, for all of your hard work and informative articles. Ironically, I was attempting to post a long comment on the demise of smaller rural hospitals and my experience as a physician and a prostate cancer patient, but our friends (??) at Microsoft saw fit to jam-in another ad for their crap and that erased my whole desktop and the comment. I hate Microsoft. For profit corporations have taken over our already collapsing medical care "industry" and good luck getting care any where, unless you have great insurance and/or pockets full of cash. I'm 78 now and on Medicare I've paid for all my long working life, so I'm screwed, and I'm a physician. Like Bernie has said, we need a single payor not for profit healthcare system like the rest of the advanced nations.
Thanks, Thom, for all of your hard work and informative articles. Ironically, I was attempting to post a long comment on the demise of smaller rural hospitals and my experience as a physician and a prostate cancer patient, but our friends (??) at Microsoft saw fit to jam-in another ad for their crap and that erased my whole desktop and the comment. I hate Microsoft. For profit corporations have taken over our already collapsing medical care "industry" and good luck getting care any where, unless you have great insurance and/or pockets full of cash. I'm 78 now and on Medicare I've paid for all my long working life, so I'm screwed, and I'm a physician. Like Bernie has said, we need a single payor not for profit healthcare system like the rest of the advanced nations.