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<blockquote data-quote="Manster" data-source="post: 131898573" data-attributes="member: 1088678">I've spent my entire adult life running one of the largest medical device companies in the country.&nbsp; What WVU Medicine is doing is what every major healthcare provider is doing...and it makes perfect sense.&nbsp; Most in the industry think we are headed to less than 100 major health systems that own/manage the over 5000 hospitals across America.&nbsp; Under the moniker of &quot;only the big survive&quot;, you have to have critical mass and size to compete financially.&nbsp; When you sit at the table with the big payers of healthcare (insurance companies and the Fed), you have to have size to negotiate &amp; compete.&nbsp; Bad analogy, but think of it like football teams/conferences.&nbsp; When sitting at the table with ESPN, who do you think has the most power / leverage?&nbsp; The SEC or Conference USA?You don't have to like it, but that is the reality.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Manster, post: 131898573, member: 1088678"] I've spent my entire adult life running one of the largest medical device companies in the country. What WVU Medicine is doing is what every major healthcare provider is doing...and it makes perfect sense. Most in the industry think we are headed to less than 100 major health systems that own/manage the over 5000 hospitals across America. Under the moniker of "only the big survive", you have to have critical mass and size to compete financially. When you sit at the table with the big payers of healthcare (insurance companies and the Fed), you have to have size to negotiate & compete. Bad analogy, but think of it like football teams/conferences. When sitting at the table with ESPN, who do you think has the most power / leverage? The SEC or Conference USA? You don't have to like it, but that is the reality. [/QUOTE]

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