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Ario: Highmark-IBC Merger Would Have Made Anticompetitive Market Even Worse

A merger of Pittsburgh-based Highmark Inc. and Philadelphia-based Independence Blue Cross would have made Pennsylvania's anticompetitive health insurance market even worse, putting health care . . .

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