With Merging of Insurers, Questions for Patients About Costs and Innovation, The New York Times

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“This is just going to undercut any motivation for innovation,” said Rob Fuller, a former hospital executive who is now a lawyer at Nelson Hardiman in Los Angeles. He predicts that the big insurers will use their newly found clout to return to the time when all that mattered was trying to obtain lower prices rather than rethinking their relationships with the providers. “It’s going to be back to blunt force, take it or leave it,” he said.

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