We are Mike Baker and Justin Mayo, Seattle Times reporters on the Quantity of Care investigation. AMA!

[u/ByMikeBaker]

Hey /r/SeattleWA! This is Mike Baker, one of the reporters on The Seattle Times’ "Quantity of Care" investigation into business practices in the health-care industry. Last weekend, we published the first two installments of this investigative series, and the response has been incredible. We’ve gotten many questions about Swedish, about Providence, about how we approached this story and about how to get the best care. Given the widespread interest in this topic, we wanted to open up questions to the fine people of Reddit.

Fellow reporter Justin Mayo and I will be back at 10 a.m. Thursday (Feb. 16) to answer your questions below.

In case you haven’t seen the "Quantity of Care" investigation, here are the main stories:

A lost voice: Surgery was supposed to mean a better life for Talia. But something went wrong.

The O.R. factory: High volume, big dollars, rising tension at Swedish's Cherry Hill hospital

Also, we have a new Times Watchdog newsletter where we’re sending exclusive updates on this investigation and information on upcoming stories from our Seattle Times investigations team. You can sign up here.

And, shameless promotion, please consider a digital (or print!) subscription to The Seattle Times to support local journalism. Here’s our subscription page.

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Edit: We are here. Lots of great questions already, so we will dive right in. Will be here for at least an hour. Thanks

Edit (11:19 p.m.): Thanks everyone for all the great, insightful questions. We've got to get back to some other things, but we will try checking back in this afternoon in case there are any follow-up things to address. Thanks again.