Opinion | The American healthcare system killed Jackson Hospital

Jackson Hospital executives have done the impossible—made an insurance company the good guy of a story.

Late Wednesday evening, a federal bankruptcy court judge dropped an order which essentially annihilated claims that Jackson Hospital executives have been making for weeks concerning their dire financial predicament and the causes behind it. The judge flatly said that Jackson Hospital officials have been “disingenuous” and that the current predicament is the result of “self-harm.”

The order undercuts weeks of claims that Blue Cross Blue Shield Alabama and its allegedly unfair reimbursement rates were at the root of all of Jackson’s problems…

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