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Excellent piece Merrill. In our mess of a healthcare system I find it difficult to identify the chief drivers...Congress, for-profit hospital companies, Pharma, private equity, tax policy, the food industry, racism/poverty and drivers thereof.

What's really awful is how much crappy care and profiteering occurs at the expense of the poorest.

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In New Haven there are ( were ) two hospitals …Yale Haven , and St. Raphael’s ( a religious institution that cared for the indigent ). Obamacare resulted in the merger and thus elimination of this hospital .

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Hi Nona - sorry I don't see how the ACA "resulted" in Y-NH and st Rafe's merger.

Can you help me understand this?

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