Good one Dr. Tenpenny. I read the article on Beckers as well . We lost our hospital , that I did part of my training at , years ago to a big corporation . Our state allows so many hospital beds , so they bought the hospital and took the bed count to a larger city that was growing, while our city was dying . Back then the CEO made $200,000 now they make 20 million plus ! End stage capitalism and acquisitions and mergers and investors have ruined healthcare. It’s about profit not people. Same with pharmacies as well. Our small family owned pharmacy closed . CVS is winning. Also electronic charting companies being sold out and EPIC is winning . They want “ care everywhere” so your medical history and care can be read throughout the USA . Gone are doctors in private practice, employed physicians are now the thing , enticing young doctors with RVUs and more time off . And they pay for CMES , malpractice and healthcare and pay your loans back !!! The mega hospitals are in style now with fancy restaurants and shopping within the hospital. My son’s hospital, where he is a resident, has a gym to workout in ! I am saddened watching profits over people. 😪 I am not a writer but it would make for a great book .
Since the pandemic fiasco…folks refuse to go to the hospital or doctors offices anymore unless on deaths bed. Folks don’t trust doctors/hospitals anymore.
Another thing that is affecting hospitals across the country is the number of uninsured people, including illegal immigrants, who use the emergency department for medical access because they know they want be turned away if they don’t have insurance and can’t pay. In 2023, Denver Health recorded about 8,000 illegal immigrants making approximately 20,000 visits, which significantly strained the hospital's resources and finances. That’s nearly 3 hospital visits per person per year.
"[Note: This is an opportunity for midwives and home births to expand their services and shine!]"
May I suggest that statement be cross-purposed to the entire health system, not just maternity?
This is an opportunity for holistic healers in the broad domain of natural health to expand their services and shine. Homeopaths, Naturopaths, Ayurvedics, Herbalists, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Currenderas, all of the holistic healers who provided health services for thousands of years before Allopathy.
Allopathy has its place. An herbalist isn't going to sew up internal organs savaged by traumatic injuries. But aside from emergency services for trauma I like my chances being cared for by natural healers over medicalized ones exactly 9/10 times. I really don't care what allopathic scary-sounding mysterious Latin word for an ordinary malady is diagnosed.
No insult to your training intended, but modern hospitals are rackets, and iatrocide is rampant. And given what's being produced in medical schools today and what USMLE is testing for proficiency in I don't see the field of allopathic medicine improving. When hospital doctors are unable to distinguish between boys and girls, force patients and staff to wear oxygen-reducing Petri rag placebos on their faces, informed consent is nonexistent from injections of unwanted biotech elixirs to performing "nonconsensual intimate examinations on anesthesized patients" (look it up), medical holds imprison unwilling patients, staff is trained to ignore the stated instructions of patients and family alike after pleasantly smiling and agreeing to follow them to their faces, yeah, no, I really don't trust any hospital anywhere with my life and health or the life and health of my loved ones. Especially when their license to practice and paycheck is more important to them than my life and health. Except for care I need to keep from bleeding out or internally and to repair broken bones, torn soft tissue and severed nerves.
Yes, this is an opportunity for natural healers to expand their services and shine!
The conversion to electronic medical records was also a factor in the downward economic viability of a rural hospital nearby...now shuttered for the past two years.
Likewise, West Suburban Hospital just outside of Chicago recently shut down and it was blamed upon the EMR/Billing System. There may be some truth to this but mostly it seems likely to corruption:
"West Sub’s Electronic Medical Record system has failed to keep up with patient billing over the last year, resulting in “at least half” of the hospital’s work not getting billed, according to the internal email obtained by the Journal and Austin Weekly last week.
They are doing the same thing in the UK, sadly. Has been going on since the 1990s. Very intentional on the part of central government and put into action by local health boards.
Our local hospital is less than two miles away. They expanded it about three years ago so I figure it is doing fine. It would likely be devastating to have them merged into one of those major corporations that don't give two cents about anything other than profits.
There are several regional hospitals within 25-40 miles that can be used as an alternative...if you can afford a $500-700 ambulance fee. I think government is wrecking healthcare as it does everything else it touches.
One stray thought I have is that stripping health care out of rural America and elsewhere dovetails nicely with depopulation agendas and push for smart cities.
Are rural hospital closing that terrible a thing? Just buy the helicopter ambulance insurance. If you are having a stroke, you DO NOT want to be admitted to a small, rural hospital. You want immediate access to a state of the art, high tech hospital, which would be found in a city.. Rural hospitals delay care. Our local health community clinic appears to only exist to push vaccines and statins.
I grew up in a small town in Wales. Just 15,000 inhabitants and 2 small hospitals .Most small towns had that. Now there is only one hospital for the whole of the county ( 130,000 people ) .
My keto-friendly cardiologist (he understands carnivore labs are a little high in LDL) is affiliated with a hospital system close to DC and the heart of the Beast. In order to see him for my annual in-person visit (I have documented my reversing plaque load with carnivore, EDTA IV Therapy, lifestyle changes), I am now forced/coerced into signing a 8 page document basically giving them the ability to put me down if ever admitted or emergency happens while I am in outpatient visit. After my visit and getting my orders for annual CAC and CIMT and we will review my lab report, I will withdraw consent of this document because its good for a year, even thought it also says it never expires. If you want to see what this all-liability-release hospital document looks like I can send to Michelle.
Good one Dr. Tenpenny. I read the article on Beckers as well . We lost our hospital , that I did part of my training at , years ago to a big corporation . Our state allows so many hospital beds , so they bought the hospital and took the bed count to a larger city that was growing, while our city was dying . Back then the CEO made $200,000 now they make 20 million plus ! End stage capitalism and acquisitions and mergers and investors have ruined healthcare. It’s about profit not people. Same with pharmacies as well. Our small family owned pharmacy closed . CVS is winning. Also electronic charting companies being sold out and EPIC is winning . They want “ care everywhere” so your medical history and care can be read throughout the USA . Gone are doctors in private practice, employed physicians are now the thing , enticing young doctors with RVUs and more time off . And they pay for CMES , malpractice and healthcare and pay your loans back !!! The mega hospitals are in style now with fancy restaurants and shopping within the hospital. My son’s hospital, where he is a resident, has a gym to workout in ! I am saddened watching profits over people. 😪 I am not a writer but it would make for a great book .
Besides reading Beckers , Crain has good articles but all of it infuriates me … again profits over people. https://www.crainsdetroit.com/forum/cdb-forum-healthcare-main-20260525/
Here’s another angle to what’s happening. https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/pigs-at-the-democracy-trough?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=323914&post_id=200896325&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=k92dd&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
I had no idea …. So organized by the Rockefellers https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=m-MtXLKBLBY&ra=m
Since the pandemic fiasco…folks refuse to go to the hospital or doctors offices anymore unless on deaths bed. Folks don’t trust doctors/hospitals anymore.
Very true. A hospital in my town closed down and only offers emergency services there.
Another thing that is affecting hospitals across the country is the number of uninsured people, including illegal immigrants, who use the emergency department for medical access because they know they want be turned away if they don’t have insurance and can’t pay. In 2023, Denver Health recorded about 8,000 illegal immigrants making approximately 20,000 visits, which significantly strained the hospital's resources and finances. That’s nearly 3 hospital visits per person per year.
"[Note: This is an opportunity for midwives and home births to expand their services and shine!]"
May I suggest that statement be cross-purposed to the entire health system, not just maternity?
This is an opportunity for holistic healers in the broad domain of natural health to expand their services and shine. Homeopaths, Naturopaths, Ayurvedics, Herbalists, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Currenderas, all of the holistic healers who provided health services for thousands of years before Allopathy.
Allopathy has its place. An herbalist isn't going to sew up internal organs savaged by traumatic injuries. But aside from emergency services for trauma I like my chances being cared for by natural healers over medicalized ones exactly 9/10 times. I really don't care what allopathic scary-sounding mysterious Latin word for an ordinary malady is diagnosed.
No insult to your training intended, but modern hospitals are rackets, and iatrocide is rampant. And given what's being produced in medical schools today and what USMLE is testing for proficiency in I don't see the field of allopathic medicine improving. When hospital doctors are unable to distinguish between boys and girls, force patients and staff to wear oxygen-reducing Petri rag placebos on their faces, informed consent is nonexistent from injections of unwanted biotech elixirs to performing "nonconsensual intimate examinations on anesthesized patients" (look it up), medical holds imprison unwilling patients, staff is trained to ignore the stated instructions of patients and family alike after pleasantly smiling and agreeing to follow them to their faces, yeah, no, I really don't trust any hospital anywhere with my life and health or the life and health of my loved ones. Especially when their license to practice and paycheck is more important to them than my life and health. Except for care I need to keep from bleeding out or internally and to repair broken bones, torn soft tissue and severed nerves.
Yes, this is an opportunity for natural healers to expand their services and shine!
Great comment and good point!! thank you~~
The conversion to electronic medical records was also a factor in the downward economic viability of a rural hospital nearby...now shuttered for the past two years.
Likewise, West Suburban Hospital just outside of Chicago recently shut down and it was blamed upon the EMR/Billing System. There may be some truth to this but mostly it seems likely to corruption:
"West Sub’s Electronic Medical Record system has failed to keep up with patient billing over the last year, resulting in “at least half” of the hospital’s work not getting billed, according to the internal email obtained by the Journal and Austin Weekly last week.
SRC::https://www.oakpark.com/2026/03/31/west-suburban/
They are doing the same thing in the UK, sadly. Has been going on since the 1990s. Very intentional on the part of central government and put into action by local health boards.
Our local hospital is less than two miles away. They expanded it about three years ago so I figure it is doing fine. It would likely be devastating to have them merged into one of those major corporations that don't give two cents about anything other than profits.
There are several regional hospitals within 25-40 miles that can be used as an alternative...if you can afford a $500-700 ambulance fee. I think government is wrecking healthcare as it does everything else it touches.
Thank you Dr. T. for bringing this overlooked phenomenon to our attention.
Another key aspect to these closures and consolidations is Private Equity investment in hospital/health systems mergers and acquisitions.
Here is an excellent link for important context regarding PE in health care:
https://www.thehealthcareexecutive.net/uncategorized/private-equity-grip-hospitals-2025/
One stray thought I have is that stripping health care out of rural America and elsewhere dovetails nicely with depopulation agendas and push for smart cities.
Are rural hospital closing that terrible a thing? Just buy the helicopter ambulance insurance. If you are having a stroke, you DO NOT want to be admitted to a small, rural hospital. You want immediate access to a state of the art, high tech hospital, which would be found in a city.. Rural hospitals delay care. Our local health community clinic appears to only exist to push vaccines and statins.
I grew up in a small town in Wales. Just 15,000 inhabitants and 2 small hospitals .Most small towns had that. Now there is only one hospital for the whole of the county ( 130,000 people ) .
Hurrah, the poison depots are gone and people will be healthier
Mexico is opening new hospitals with excellent doctors. In all the major cities. Gracias Dios 🙏
My keto-friendly cardiologist (he understands carnivore labs are a little high in LDL) is affiliated with a hospital system close to DC and the heart of the Beast. In order to see him for my annual in-person visit (I have documented my reversing plaque load with carnivore, EDTA IV Therapy, lifestyle changes), I am now forced/coerced into signing a 8 page document basically giving them the ability to put me down if ever admitted or emergency happens while I am in outpatient visit. After my visit and getting my orders for annual CAC and CIMT and we will review my lab report, I will withdraw consent of this document because its good for a year, even thought it also says it never expires. If you want to see what this all-liability-release hospital document looks like I can send to Michelle.
Big brother CAQH just formed a new company to oversee physician billings . https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/digital-marketing/insurer-owned-caqh-rebrands-to-dataspring/
This coordinates well with forcing everyone (who survives) into their 15 minute cities, I think. Praying for people to take action.