Good step by AG Healey. Next steps?

Brava to the new Massachusetts Attorney General, Maura Healey, for indicating her displeasure with the Partners Healthcare System deal submitted by her predecessor.  I'm guessing that the Court is now very unlikely to appprove the proposed settlement.  That's good.What next?  It would be tempting to view this question of system expansion as solely a Partners issue.  After all, they have extensive market power.  But the fact is that all of the major systems in the state are acting to expand their reach through mergers and acquisitions.It's time to put a stop to all such anti-competitive activities.There is simply no reason that major academic medical centers need to own community hospitals and physician groups to accomplish the purposes of creating accountable care organizations.  Clinical relationships that bring about appropriately managed care are not a matter of corporate structure.  They require, instead:1) Complete interoperability of electronic medical records among the various segments of the health care spectrum of care; so that no one "owns" a patient and s/he is free to choose the best place to get care;2) Transparency of financial charges and relationships between and among hospitals, doctors, and other health care facilities so that patients and referring doctors can see what the true costs of care will be in different settings;3) Transparency of clinical outcomes so that referring doctors (and patients) can make decisions about ...
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