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If the commenter you're responding to is from the US then no. We have privately owned for profit hospitals and often they're the only option in ones area.
People always get called out for assuming everything is about the US but Europeans do it just as much lol
There aren't very many hospitals or medical facilities owned by municipalities anymore. Most are either owned and operated by a private hospital network, or operate under a private trust.
The hospital I work at used to be owned by the state via the university, but our governor literally gave the campus away to a private trust that operates for profit. Super fun times.
I think we may be talking about two different countries....
Ahh, yep. Definitely different countries.
Quite a few doctor’s offices are owned or ran by a management group, partly to share or reduce their costs due to bureaucratic insurance companies and HIPAA compliance. Those same management groups use the doctors like a cash cow and attempt to shovel as many patients at them as they can because a venture fund is running the group behind the scenes.
That's a funny name for an urgent care place, from the english "drop in appointment."
I hear you, I just thought it was a funny name from my American perspective. Du lutger dritgodt.