Source: The Daily Economy
by Jared Rhoads
“In most sectors of the American economy, we celebrate the moment when insiders break away to build something better. Engineers start their own firms. Chefs open their own restaurants. Innovators leave incumbents and test their mettle in the market. Only in US healthcare do we treat that entrepreneurial impulse as a threat worthy of prohibition. Section 6001 of the 2010 Affordable Care Act froze the growth of physician-owned hospitals (POHs) by barring new POHs from getting paid by Medicare and Medicaid, and by restricting the expansion of existing POHs. … The POH issue illustrates how, in a mixed economy, controls beget controls.” (11/27/25)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/the-quiet-ban-on-physician-owned-hospitals/