"Partners (HealthCare System) might claim they are more efficient. But does (a merger) add more services or boost up the price? One of the big issues is, when Partners gets hold of an entity, it also extracts bigger prices.''
—Healthcare economist Stuart Altman in a Boston Globe story on the Boston-based system receiving nearly one-third of all the money Massachusetts insurers spent on acute hospital care last year
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