Consolidation Key to Shoring Up America’s Hospitals

Michael Busler
3 min readMar 22, 2022

There are too many small and relatively inefficient hospitals. Merging with larger facilities will reduce costs and ensure viability.

America may finally be emerging from its long COVID-19 winter as the omicron variant wanes, but the healthcare industry has a long way to go before it will be able to return to anything resembling a pre-pandemic normal.

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Michael Busler

Dr. Busler is an economist and a public policy analyst. He is a Professor of Finance at Stockton University. His op-ed columns appear in Townhall, Newsmax.