Code WACK!

How hospital consolidation inflates prices & hurts patients


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This time on Code WACK! What can be done to ensure that nonprofit hospitals are delivering fairly on their community benefits – and worthy of their huge tax breaks? How does corporate lobbying complicate efforts to improve the oversight of these facilities? Who benefits when hospitals reduce costs without lowering prices for patients?

To find out, we spoke to filmmaker Sandra Alvarez, director of the new documentary InHospitable, which tells the story of patients and advocates as they fight for their lives and take on a billion-dollar hospital system. This is the second of two episodes with Sandra about her film InHospitable.

Check out the Show Notes and Transcript for background info and more!

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