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Commission to Build a Healthier America Public Meeting
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Economic Downturn Slows Phoenix¿s Once-Booming Health Care Market
After more than a decade of rapid population growth and a thriving economy, Phoenix’s once-booming health care market has recently adopted a more cautious outlook. Job losses and the subsequent loss of employer-sponsored health insurance, along with a high rate of home foreclosures, have adversely affected many Phoenix residents. At the same time, employers, especially small firms, and health plans have continued to search for ways to reduce health insurance premiums. In response, area hospitals and physicians increasingly were seeking closer collaborations and rethinking expansion plans. Against this backdrop of new-found provider caution, significant state-level attention to illegal immigration and a state budget crisis have sparked changes across the area’s health care system.
Health Care Markets Weather Economic Downturn, Brace for Health Reform
- 1 Key Findings from HSC's 2010 Site Visits
- 2 Greenville and Spartanburg
- 3 Indianapolis Hospital Systems Compete for Well-Insured, Suburban Patients
- 4 Lansing's Dominant Hospital, Health Plan Strengthen Market Positions
- 5 Little Rock Health Care Safety Net Stretched by Economic Downturn
- 6 Economic Downturn Strains Miami Health Care System
- 7 Economic Downturn Slows Phoenix¿s Once-Booming Health Care Market
- 8 Syracuse Health Care Market Works to Right-Size Hospital Capacity