But this controversial project — new roads paved over a beloved field traversed by herds of deer — isn’t fueled by Hershey’s global snacking company, the giant nearby amusement park of the same name, or the hospitality industry. Instead, it’s radiating out of Penn State Health, the hilltop headquarters overlooking the town created by a risk-taking confectioner more than a century ago.

So another forced healthcare monopoly because the healthcare industry has been floundering in costs after Obamacare…

A community anchor since 1970, the “med center,” as locals call it, is Dauphin County’s top private employer — and continues to expand. Today, Penn State Health serves 29 Pennsylvania counties and employs close to 17,000 (12,000 at the med center and its children’s hospital alone); its College of Medicine enrolls more than 1,700 students in its graduate programs.

Oh look, I was right, a government forced monopoly that turns out to be democrat! I’m shocked…

Today, the municipality (population 25,000) has never been bluer. “The biggest factor contributing to the change in voter registration, shifting from that ‘one-party town,’ in my opinion is the med center and the College of Medicine,” said Paioletti. “The medical community is extremely diverse, and we know how much the med center and college have grown.”

😂

For physicians, their leftward turn is a reversal from decades past, when doctors commonly identified as Republican. At the time, their GOP preference was a business concern: They owned small practices. They had yet to enter the era of employment in large medical systems. “Most doctors are Republicans,” as one Florida physician observed to the New York Times in 1996. “Most doctors’ dads were Republicans. They do not see themselves as proletarian. They see themselves as bourgeois.”

“Large medical systems” is an adorable euphemism for forced local healthcare monopolies.

Over time, though, the profession became more politically divided. This division paralleled cultural and economic shifts: more diversity among students at medical schools, where social concerns were incorporated into curricula, and then eventual employment among these graduates at corporate or nonprofit medical systems instead of privately owned practices. The leftward shift was gradual but then suddenly intensified by the Covid pandemic, when a large share of doctors perceived GOP politicians as displaying an antipathy toward science.

Imagine being correct about Covid, the lockdowns, masks, and the “vaccine” as “displaying antipathy towards science”. Then again these are the same simpletons who zealotry leads to hilarious phrases like “I believe in science”.

Working in systems instead of operating as private owners spares physicians some administrative burdens and the direct overhead expense of medical malpractice insurance premiums. And the shift isn’t going away either. As an American College of Surgeons analysis last year noted, “Recent residency graduates increasingly opt for the perceived predictability of employment rather than seeking the entrepreneurial rewards of small business practice.”

In other words, democrats managed to legislate the feasibility of private practices for almost all medical fields to near zero. Forced compliance from the government, how “free”…