healthcare reform

Japan’s Aging Population and Hospital Capacity

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How Japanese Hospitals Are Preparing for a Super-Aged Society. Walk through the corridors of any large hospital in Tokyo or Osaka today and one thing becomes immediately clear — the waiting rooms are filled with silver-haired patients, and the staff rushing between beds are working harder than ever. Japan has officially entered what demographers call … Read more

The Rise of For-Profit Hospital Chains in America

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There’s a quiet revolution happening behind the automatic doors of your local hospital. Over the past four decades, for-profit hospital chains — think HCA Healthcare, Tenet Health, and Community Health Systems — have grown from regional experiments into multi-billion-dollar empires. Today, roughly 25% of all U.S. community hospitals operate under investor-owned models. That number keeps … Read more