Are Hospitals Grabbing a Bigger Share of the Healthcare Pie?

By David P. Hamilton in the Health Care Industry blog The U.S. healthcare system is sometimes best thought of as a three-way tug-of-war between payers (private insurers and the feds), providers (hospitals and doctors) and suppliers (drug and medical-device makers). No, patients don’t really figure into this analogy — at best, they’re trussed up in the middle somewhere. Most big changes in the system result when one of the three players temporarily seizes the upper hand.