The indictment embraces five charges, among which were charges that the defendants combined and conspired: to prevent the Group Health Association, Incorporated, from arranging adequate med care for its- members; to restrain doctors from serving the Group Health Association in pursuit of their callings; and to restrain Washington hospitals from the business of operating such hospitals as would care for G.H.A. patients.
The indictment stated that the results of the conspiracy were, frstly, to prevent doctors from becoming and remaining members of the Group Health Association's staff; secondly, to prevent G.H.A. doctors from consulting with colleagues outside the ce-operative; and thirdly, to prevent doctors from treating or operating upon patients in hospitals in or near Washington.
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