participants in the marketplace so here the article points out that it is a problem matic enough that regional hospital monopolies have the power to demand high prices but on top of this many hospitals in gauge in additional anti-competitive practices and a wild matthews of the wall street journal obtained secret contracts between insurers and hospitals revealing that these contracts often barred insurers from sending patients to less expensive or higher quality health care providers. other hospitals precluded insurers from excluding some of the systems hospitals from insurers networks some contract provisions including those from new york presbyterian hospital and b j c health care of st louis prevented insurers from disclosing the hospital's prices to patients oh americans are being farmed by the hospital medical industrial complex word docs on a fog or a farm they fatten this up look at the average american and waddles around i mean that's incredibly profitable for sugar purveyors...