At least two of our major health care systems are doing their part to champion bare-knuckles competition: UW Health is planning a Far East Side hospital to compete with Meriter?s hospital, and Meriter is opening clinics to compete with UW?s clinics while increasing the size of its doctors group in part with doctor?s poached from UW.
Also quoted: Donna Friedsam, a health care policy researcher at the UW-Madison Population Health Institute.