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Northern Virginia and Hampton Roads have lost more jobs than any other metro area with more than 1 million people
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Brett Kelman and Samantha Liss are writers for KFF Health News. They can be reached at bkelman@kff.org and samanthal@kff.org.
In the six years since lawmakers in both states waived anti-monopoly laws and Ballad was formed, ER visits for patients sick enough to be hospitalized grew more than three times as long and now far exceed the criteria set by state officials.
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