Patients also (as the article mentions towards the end) get worse results, e.g., in [1] "Higher hospital competition was associated with lower 30-day mortality

Patients also (as the article mentions towards the end) get worse results, e.g., in [1] "Higher hospital competition was associated with lower 30-day mortality for three to five of the six study conditions, depending on the choice of competition measure, and this finding was robust to a variety of sensitivity analyses". [1]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1955358/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1955358/ My local non-profit healthcare org was bought out by a giant conglomerate a couple years ago. They promised prices wouldn't increase. My monthly bill jumped 20%. It boggles my mind that state regulators approved this merger.