Massachusetts health insurers said Monday that Partners HealthCare's planned acquisition of three hospitals would raise costs for consumers across the state and called on a Superior Court judge to achieve stricter price controls and other limits on Partners before allowing the expansion to go through. In their first public comments on the case, filed with Attorney General Martha Coakley's office, the insurers stopped short of asking the court to block the mergers, as other groups and individuals have. But without major modifications to a settlement between Partners and Coakley, the insurers said, it would hamper their ability to contain rising premiums and add to the "dysfunction'' of health care pricing.
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