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This is America Dissected.

I'm your host, Dr. Abdul-Elsaid.

Can you name the three to four nearest hospitals to your house?

If you're able to do that, how many of those hospital names have changed over the last

few years?

And how many changed their names after they were bought up by an even bigger healthcare

system?

Chances are, in your community and in mind, at least one of those hospitals went from

being a non-profit hospital owned by some religious denomination with the word like

Catholic or Lutheran or Methodist or Jewish in the name, to being owned by a private

four-profit corporation with headquarters far away from where you live.

Today, the non-profit local hospitals becoming a thing of the past.

By 2018, nearly two in three hospitals nationwide belong to a hospital chain.

Hospitals are buying each other up at a record pace.

And if you live in a rural community, you're even more likely to have watched your local

hospital closes a result.

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