These Appalachia hospitals made big promises to gain a monopoly − and fail to deliver

Two dozen states, from Florida to Washington, have passed laws that allow hospital systems to merge into monopolies, disregarding FTC warnings that such mergers can become difficult to control and may decrease quality of care.

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