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Thomas Dworetzky, Contributing Reporter | September 21, 2016
The Aetna-Humana deal would cut competition in 57 metropolitan areas in 15 states. Four of these are fighting to prevent the merger.
"More can be done in certain states where the attorneys general have not yet taken a strong stance against the mergers,” advised Gurman, adding that “the AMA will work to expand the bipartisan group of state attorneys general that has joined the Justice Department to block the massive deals."
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AMA data showed that in 40 percent of the metropolitan areas studied, a single health insurer had at least a 50-percent share of the commercial health insurance market and in 14 states one insurer controlled at least 50 percent of the commercial health insurance market.
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