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DESCRIPTION:Please come to a discussion of \nCPMC and SF’s Healthcare Power 
 Struggle:\nand a discussion of strategies for the upcoming \nSupervisor’s 
 hearing on CPMC’s planned expansion.\n\nSaturday, November 17, 1-3 PM\nSF 
 Gray Panthers Office\n1182 Market St., Room 203\nNear Hyde St. and 8th St.  
 Civic Center BART/Metro\n(One door downtown from Orpheum Theater)\n\nWe 
 will be replaying and discussing City Healthcare Purchaser Catherine 
 Dodd’s testimony at a SF Supervisor’s hearing on how CPMC’s expansion 
 plans would give Sutter-CPMC a dominance in the healthcare marketplace that 
 would allow it to significantly raise its prices, and give other healthcare 
 providers an opportunity to raise their prices also.  Sutter’s dominance 
 of other Northern California healthcare markets has raised Northern 
 California hospital revenues per patient per day to be 56% above those in 
 Southern California. (LA Times, 3-6-2011)\n\nCatherine Dodd’s testimony 
 gives a riveting picture of a developing power struggle between two SF 
 healthcare blocs of Accountable Care Organizations, groupings of hospitals, 
 doctor groups, and insurance companies: \n\n1)  CPMC hospitals and clinics, 
 paired with Brown and Tolland doctors group, and Blue Cross health 
 insurance, versus\n\n2)  UCSF and Dignity hospitals and clinics, paired 
 with Hill doctors group, and HealthNet insurance. \n\nAccountable Care 
 Organizations, mandated by the Obama Health Plan, are supposed to reduce 
 healthcare prices by consolidating provision of healthcare, but the case of 
 Sutter shows that this consolidation can also raise prices.  Meanwhile, 
 patients in each bloc suffer because it is difficult and expensive to see 
 doctors in the competing bloc.\n\nUnderstanding these dynamics should give 
 us a better strategy in dealing with CPMC’s plans, when they come up at 
 the Supervisor’s hearings.\n\nPlease join us to untangle and discuss this 
 complicated struggle.  Clearly, trying to use market mechanisms to 
 streamline healthcare and reduce healthcare costs leads to a machine that 
 tears itself apart.  We need a healthcare system not based on profit.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/11/15/18725713.php
SUMMARY:Discussion of CPMC and SF’s Healthcare Power Struggle
LOCATION:1182 Market St., Room 203\nNear Hyde St. and 8th St.  Civic Center 
 BART/Metro\n(One door downtown from Orpheum Theater)\n
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/11/15/18725713.php
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