Do our Canadian comrades or others have leads on data, - even anedotal data - on cross-border mergers or acquisitions or expansions of health care firms between the US and Canada over say the last 10 or 5 years? This is for a quick study Dave Ranney and I are doing where we are trying to make some links between downsizing/restructuring in health care and "free trade"/globalization; in the context of downsizing/restructuring at the University hospital here. i p-l s ___________________________________ Robert Naiman 1821 W. Cullerton Chicago Il 60608-2716 (h) 312-421-1776 (here there is voice mail) Urban Planning and Policy (M/C 348) 1007 W. Harrison Room 1180 Chicago, Il 60607-7137 (o) 312-996-2126 (here there is voice mail also) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://icarus.uic.edu/~rnaima1/