My uncle works for a hospital system that's doing the same "buy up everything" plan. He says it's because once they own all of the medical providers in the coun

My uncle works for a hospital system that's doing the same "buy up everything" plan. He says it's because once they own all of the medical providers in the county, then they will be able to dictate the price to the insurance, instead of the other way around. What can the insurance companies tell their customers? Go to the next county for healthcare? Another relative of mine just merged his surgical practice into the hospital system's. The overhead on his practice was getting too high, in particular malpractice insurance.