{"id":7540,"date":"2017-07-24T09:06:23","date_gmt":"2017-07-24T13:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=7540"},"modified":"2017-07-24T09:06:23","modified_gmt":"2017-07-24T13:06:23","slug":"in-appalachia-two-hospital-giants-seek-state-sanctioned-monopoly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=7540","title":{"rendered":"In Appalachia, Two Hospital Giants Seek State-Sanctioned Monopoly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Phil Galewitz for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: #ffffff; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. \u2014 Looking out a fourth-floor window of his hospital system\u2019s headquarters, Alan Levine can see the Appalachian Mountains that have defined this hardscrabble region for generations. <a href=\"http:\/\/khn.org\/news\/in-appalachia-two-hospital-giants-seek-state-sanctioned-monopoly\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A%20First%20Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=54539102&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_tx9wtTJh2x6oNgcqMRrHZxQIVlniAv5c3pMH3I_xJNBfPSBq1Vr1k4ywNTVVX1cnuRescdILZiSaE1p3kGvRvgZ1HeQ&amp;_hsmi=54539102\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; color: #444444; text-transform: none; line-height: 1.6; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-stretch: inherit; background-color: #ffffff; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; font-variant-numeric: inherit;\">Kaiser Health News\u00a0is\u00a0a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. 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