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How government policy is killing independent medicine

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The number of independent physicians is declining as more doctors become employees of large hospital systems or insurance conglomerates.

Independent physicians are disappearing. Increasingly, the doctors Americans see are employees of hospital systems or insurance conglomerates.

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