For decades, research studies and news stories have concluded the American system is ineffective, too expensive and falling further behind its international peers in important measures of performance: life expectancy, chronic-disease management and incidence of medical error. As patients and health care professionals search for viable alternatives to the status quo, a recent mega-merger is
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