Size does matter.
Hospital mergers, like Godzilla's comeback movie, promise that bulk means marketplace brawn. Yet as the dust settles, the payoff isn't always so clear. Promised efficiencies from merging duplicated programs--even shutting down entire hospitals--often fail to materialize. In fact, cutting the deal may turn out to be the easy part.
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