[Clubber]

This. It's called block scheduling. They want every minute of every resource every day to be filled or even overbooked. Rural medical centers are difficult to do this with, so they get shut down, forcing people to drive further. A single rural medical center can't be full, but if you close down 5 of them and force everyone near those 5 locations to drive an hour or three to a bigger one, it's much easier to fill. It's corporate consolidation and greed.

[deelowe]

And every single diagnosis is reduced to rote procedure. I have no less than 3 lingering issues that I've been dealing with for YEARS that I cannot seem to get cleared up. I'm pretty sure more costly diagnostics (cat scan or colonoscopy) will pinpoint the issue, but they refuse order them and instead shrug off the problem because "all of the lab work looks healthy."