AHA: Hospitals a $2T economic driver
John Commins, for HealthLeaders Media, April 1, 2013
Hospitals employ 5.5 million workers and spend billions of dollars on goods and services, but one critic says, "It is a big mistake to use economic power as an excuse for not finding the right balance for what we should spend on healthcare."
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