they negotiated prices with hospitals and doctors. so the theory, at least as i understood it, which i agreed with, is that by having a stronger purchasing agent, they would be able to negotiate lower prices from hospitals and doctors for the employers. i pointed out at the end of my dissent, senator, that there might be a problem in the upstream hospital/doctor market. i specifically said i would have sent it back to the district court for analysis of whether the merger was a problem. it's a -- >> but you did suggest that the court should disregard two cases that have been widely relied on for more than 50 years in anti-trust. do you think courts now applying these cases are wrong to do so? >> i think the supreme court in the 1970s moved away from the analysis in those cases because