In a letter to the company, the second-largest health insurer in the country, the AHA noted that antitrust agencies have never charged any hospital with being anticompetitive due to being part of a healthcare system.
The letter contends that the real drivers are rising rates of chronic disease, labor shortages that drive up wages, high costs of technology and pharmaceuticals, and “excessive administrative costs due to unnecessary complexity.”
Read AHA News Now’s report on premium increases.
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