There’s a touch of irony in Dallas’ ultra-competitive, multibillion-dollar health care industry. Some of the funding for UT Southwestern’s $800 million William P. Clements Jr. University Hospital, which opens soon, can be linked to the region’s other major providers. The competitors didn’t directly finance UTSW’s new showcase facility. Instead, the support came by way of an affiliation of not-for-profit and for-profit hospitals established to enhance care for poor and uninsured patients in Dallas County. Money paid to UTSW through that affiliation went into a pool that was tapped for $200 million of the hospital’s cost. How much did the competitors contribute? Difficult to determine. Once...
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