This website talks about how hospitals are starting to merge more and more mostly on the current opportunities and needs the healthcare organization was seeing. Some are doing it because they have concerns about remaining independent in the long run and feel safer for a merger to happen by looking out for survival incase a situation happens again that causes the organizations to stretch out resources they don't have.

1. Should the government force failing hospitals/healthcare organizations to merge with another organization to stay alive?

2. How is industry transformation causing more and more mergers to happen?

Please answer these questions! Thank you!