>>>As someone that was brought up in "Politics Southern Style" I would say you have a real understanding of how things work here.
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>I've lived longer in Alabama than most others here. It was in Birmingham that I first saw a healthcare facility close because its AR grew by a day, breaking its covenants. I stood on de Paul where I was based and gazed across the city at that healthcare tower representing huge human potential and good works, now being mothballed, quickly to fall into disrepair and valueless as a healthcare facility. If you want a lesson that massive US healthcare prices are not driven by physician and facility overcharging, that's not a bad start.

Did you happen to know Bill Featheringill in Birmingham? He started Complete Health. He was a classmate of mine in college and died last Saturday.