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A comment on After Appalachian Hospitals Merged into a Monopoly, Their ERs Slowed to a Crawl. Parent comment

Re:After Appalachian Hospitals Merged into a Monopoly, Their... by skidd0 on Tuesday March 26, 2024 @09:49PM (#39834909)
You might not have realized how this monopoly was granted. It wasn't a free market decision, it was state sanctioned.
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Re:After Appalachian Hospitals Merged into a Monopoly, Their... by nkrisc on Tuesday March 26, 2024 @10:36PM (#39835160)
A state-sanctioned monopoly means the state did not interfere in preventing the monopoly in the first place.
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Re:After Appalachian Hospitals Merged into a Monopoly, Their... by saalweachter on Tuesday March 26, 2024 @10:26PM (#39835102)
The state forced these hospitals to merge over the objection of their owners?
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Re:After Appalachian Hospitals Merged into a Monopoly, Their... by akira2501 on Wednesday March 27, 2024 @01:52AM (#39836047)
That almost makes it sound like "the state" did it for fun and that money wasn't somehow involved.
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