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https://www.kff.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2026/02/HWS-Health-Care-Consolidation-Feature-Image.png1440810Panelists will discuss the motivations behind horizontal and vertical consolidation in health care, its potential to lower or raise costs, the implications for patients and payers, and how policy makers could respond.