The health care nightmare isn't just

[purple_haze]

1. Yep

Malpractice insurance has become so costly that local doctors and small officers are selling out and getting bought by huge hospitals. The docs now have a new list of procedures and compliance requirements (per the hospitals) and can't practice they way they did when they were in private practice. And I no longer talk to "Lola" the secretary when I call to make an appointment, but rather some random call center person whose contracted office handles twenty different healthcare affiliates. Its bananas.