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After the Federal Trade Commission’s flashy announcements last week that it was suing to block not one, but two hospital mergers, it’s tempting to think the agency — with its new Democratic majority — is living up to pledges from its leaders and President Biden to get tougher on health care consolidation.

Antitrust experts see it differently.

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