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How Minnesota Took on Hospital Monopolies and Won

HF 402 creates a “public interest standard” for mergers

May 31, 2023 • by Pat Garofalo

Across the country, health care workers have seen both their pay and their working conditions head down a slope thanks to the increasing power of the large health systems that employ them....

Health Care Monopolies Strike Back

Three ways big health care systems are fighting new rules and antitrust scrutiny

May 15, 2023 • by Pat Garofalo

It looks to me like a case of UNC Health is reading the writing on the wall and trying to get ahead of either court cases that could harm its future power....

The National, Bipartisan Loathing of Hospital Monopolies

State legislators of all political leanings are fed up

February 16, 2023 • by Pat Garofalo

The United States, rather famously, has the highest health care prices in the developed world. And one of the chief drivers behind that is high hospital prices: hospitals receive $1 in $3 spent in the United States on health care, and they're more profitable than other notorious health care sectors such as insurers or ...