Gastro Health is a rollup of gastroenterology practices across the country by a private equity group. This is a common practice which contributes to consolidation, high prices, high utilization and no improvement in quality. These private equity groups then sell the entity to another PE group to provide a lucrative exit and on we go. In this case the Ontario Employees pension plan is the buyer. I am sure they care a lot about health care in the US.
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Covid vaccines I have no problem with, but I’m never getting another colonoscopy as long as I live. The pre-diet is unhealthy enough (Wonder bread and green Jello) but the chemical death cocktail is just too much. I assume (without any real evidence) it wipes out all the good stuff (bacteria, microbes??) as well as everything else from your system. And hopefully your kidneys survive the chemical onslaught. Even though they always find the single obligatory polyp and then say, “Come back in 5 years”, no, not happening, I’m done.
you can see if they will pay for a virtual one. It doesn’t kill all the germs, just removes everything they live on. Having just done that a couple of months ago I agree it is no fun. On the other hand colon cancer would be worse and the reason they do them is because it has led to a substantial decline in serious colon cancer.
Covid vaccines I have no problem with, but I’m never getting another colonoscopy as long as I live. The pre-diet is unhealthy enough (Wonder bread and green Jello) but the chemical death cocktail is just too much. I assume (without any real evidence) it wipes out all the good stuff (bacteria, microbes??) as well as everything else from your system. And hopefully your kidneys survive the chemical onslaught. Even though they always find the single obligatory polyp and then say, “Come back in 5 years”, no, not happening, I’m done.
you can see if they will pay for a virtual one. It doesn’t kill all the germs, just removes everything they live on. Having just done that a couple of months ago I agree it is no fun. On the other hand colon cancer would be worse and the reason they do them is because it has led to a substantial decline in serious colon cancer.