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Article: THE HILLARY CHILL Mrs. Clinton's health care reforms, plus longer-term economic forces have hospitals putting plans on hold
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- May 25, 1993
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For Boston's health care industry, the future has already
arrived.
Even as they wait nervously for President Clinton's reform plan,
due next month, the city's big hospitals are hunkering down and
cutting back, getting ready for a world that won't be as bountiful as
the one they are used to.
In the past few weeks, the hospitals have announced layoffs and
the closing of units. Four of the major teaching hospitals have
postponed or slowed construction of new facilities while they figure
out which way the world is headed.
The anxiety isn't limited to hospitals. Cambridge Biotech Corp.,