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: LawPunditThe Quieter Revolution in US Medicine Predates Health Reform: Doctors Moving from Private Practice to Hospital-Paid Salaried Jobs - NYTimes.com
By Andis Kaulins
"A quiet revolution is transforming how medical care is delivered in this country, and it has very little to do with the sweeping health care legislation that President Obama just signed into law....Hence, in many ways, the new health care law is part of a medical trend that precedes Obama.
As recently as 2005, more than two-thirds of medical practices were physician-owned ? a share that had been relatively constant for many years, the Medical Group Management Association says. But within three years, that share dropped below 50 percent, and analysts say the slide has continued."
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Full post as published by LawPundit on March 27, 2010 (boomark / email).
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