http://www.beckershospitalreview.com/legal-regulatory-issues/hospitals-claim-the-aca-demands-mergers-are-judges-warming-up-to-the-argument.html

Judges have largely dismissed the argument that hospitals need to merge to meet the demands of the Affordable Care Act, but a Pennsylvania judge recently accepted the “Obamacare-made-me-do-it” defense, according to the National Law Review. In defense to an antitrust challenge by the FTC, plenty of hospitals have argued mergers are necessary to meet ACA goals, such as moving away from the fee-for-service model and providing high quality care more efficiently.