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Healthcare Systems & Policy · Three conflicting economic models — physician cash, hospital revenue, insurer margin — make system-level efficiency nearly impossible
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Three conflicting economic models — physician cash, hospital revenue, insurer margin — make system-level efficiency nearly impossible
760K physicians operate on cash basis, ~13K hospitals/facilities on revenue basis, and ~1,300 insurers plus pharma/device on margin basis. This structural misalignment means no single actor…