How Did the Industrialization of Health Care Take Shape?

A major federal overhaul in the 19 eighties was intended to control costs by discouraging long hospital stays, but inadvertently promoted more aggressive medical interventions. In doing so, it also set off a massive consolidation of health care benefiting corporate health empires that emerged from prestigious, academic medical centers. And it wasn't just hospital consolidation - insurance companies expanding into hospitals and hospitals expanding into insurance. How did this next intense phase of consolidation take shape? This system of expanding medical centres on the one hand, in dying community hospitals on the other,. all against the backdrop of post post volcar shock, ragin era social state retrenchment?"