Surgicenters Will Add To Health Care Costs
Published: December 5, 2005
There used to be a gas station (remember when we called them “service” stations?) on every corner, and that competition was a good thing. Now the man who wears the star has given way to Starbucks, and coffee on every corner is well and good, too. (Gas guzzler to coffee guzzler — both fuel, only the receptacle has changed.) But do we want a surgery center on every corner, maybe with a shill outside dressed in a reader board, urging folks to “come on in” for a daytime procedure or two? No and emphatically no.

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