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After Appalachian Hospitals Merged Into a Monopoly, Their ERs Slowed to a Crawl

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Ballad Health, a 20-hospital system in the Tri-Cities region of Tennessee and Virginia, benefits from the largest state-sanctioned hospital monopoly in the United States. In the six years since lawmakers in both states waived anti-monopoly laws and Ballad was formed, ER visits for patients sick enough to be hospitalized grew more than three times as long.

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After Appalachian Hospitals Merged Into a Monopoly, Their ERs Slowed to a Crawl

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