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Latest Healthcare Reform Set To Fail

February 2008 | Industry News

A US senate bill (S.B. 2190) that would have allowed collective bargaining for Puerto Rico's healthcare providers looks set to fail after the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) offered a negative assessment on its likely effects on the standard of healthcare. The FTC found that the bill would allow competing health providers to agree on prices charged for services - a practice that would amount to price fixing and would thus be

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