Joseph Simons

If they're maintaining separate business structures and infrastructure, it's much easier to have a divestiture in that circumstance than in where they're completely enmeshed and all the eggs are scrambled.

It makes it very appropriate for it to be the subject of hearings... by Joseph Simons

It makes it very appropriate for it to be the subject of hearings and for us to get input on that.

We are very happy to take complaints from any source, if you're reading about it (an issue) in the press, in the media, then you can be assured that we're looking at it already or we will because of the media attention. If it's out there in the media, we're on it.

Staff had significant concerns about the likely anticompetitive effects and had recommended that the Commission block the transaction. Now that the deal has been abandoned, patients and surgeons will continue to benefit from competition.