Says Jeremy Olson in the Strib, “Minnesota’s attorney general could gain sweeping authority over health care mergers, especially the Fairview-Sanford merger that could result in out-of-state control of the University of Minnesota’s teaching hospital. A proposal gaining momentum in the Legislature would prohibit hospital and clinic mergers that ‘substantially lessen competition,’ and empower the attorney general to go to court to block or unwind any transactions that don’t benefit Minnesota.”