The recent conflict between 32BJ Health Fund and New York Presbyterian exemplifies the critical need for legislative intervention against anti-competitive contracting terms in health care. This occurred against a backdrop of soaring health care costs driven largely by provider consolidation and market dominance. State and federal policymakers should be motivated – and even compelled – to enact more robust measures to curtail these practices. Prohibition of anti-competitive contracting terms is an important first step to rebalance the power dynamics in health care negotiations. While the New York legislature has
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This id snother example of why weneed a single payer system. Higher quality hospitals and hospital systems get that way with the use of money. Recently, I was musdiagnosed for almost a year, and almost had the wrong surgery, but went fir a second opinion at Hospital for Special Surgery, part of Columbia Presbyrterian, where they xrayed another part of my body. Operation was May 3, hope to be fully recovered July 3. New york City has three highly ranked hospitals/hosital systems, Columbia Presbyterian, Mt. Sinai, and New York University hosptal/systems, and they charge more, which how theycan get better doctors, and better equpment.