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Prevent rising healthcare costs by stopping healthcare mergers

Insurance companies, health care systems at odds in cost-cutting push

Corporate Giants Buy Up Primary Care Practices at Rapid PaceLarge health insurers and other companies are especially keen on doctors’ groups that care for patients in private Medicare plans.

Opinion: Healthcare consolidation in CT is a cause for concernAlthough CT has some of the strongest anti-merger laws, residents are victimized by the continued trend toward health care monopolization.

Legislators pledge to tackle health care costs in upcoming sessionLawmakers are targeting the rising cost of health care as a key issue they plan to tackle this upcoming legislative session, after hearing from hospital executives, representatives of insurance and pharmaceutical companies and other industry officials Thursday.

Health care in CT: Where governor candidates stand on key issuesHear from Gov. Ned Lamont, Bob Stefanowski and Rob Hotaling on the COVID-19 pandemic, abortion, rising health care costs and more.

In CT, a ‘battle royale’ over lowering health care costsCT's insurance companies and health care systems are at odds in a push to rein in costs for the state's residents.

Gov. Ned Lamont rolled out two bills that put a free-market governor at odds with Big Pharma and the hospital industry, a major CT employer. Read on CTMirror.org

Lamont administration seeks change in CT hospital and drug costsLamont introduced bills that would ban outpatient facility fees that cost CT consumers $400M annually and cap out-of-network patient costs.

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CT's big hospital systems are buying up private practices and small hospitals. What does that mean?While regionalizing health care improves the bottom line for Connecticut's hospitals, it leaves patients farther away from medical care.

While regionalizing health care services in this way can improve the bottom line for hospital systems, it leaves some patients farther away from the medical care they need.

Service cuts often follow acquisitions. The cuts have had a particularly strong impact on the state’s rural labor and delivery landscape.Service cuts often follow acquisitions. The cuts have had a particularly strong impact on the state’s rural labor and delivery landscape. Researchers have connected hospital consolidation to rising health care costs.

Why Yale New Haven Health's latest acquisition could mean higher costs for CT patients"In terms of the pocket-book impact for families in Connecticut, [hospital consolidation]...

The sale confirms other research that acquisitions result in losses to the hospital acquired and then hospitals, stripped of value, are resold. Manchester, Rockville and Waterbury (now planned to be acquired by Yale) were previously sold to Prospect Medical Holdings in CA, which extracted value for their investors, then resold the hospitals.

Johnson Memorial, St. Francis Care may mergeExecutives at Johnson Memorial Medical Center and St. Francis Care are exploring an affiliation between the two organizations that they say will benefit both sides and could eventually lead to

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