The feds have all but sanctioned it ...

The feds have all but sanctioned it, and the state long ago gave its conditional blessing. So what makes a bunch of doctors and a big union think they can overturn the approval of that mega-health care merger between Nevada’s homegrown HMO, Sierra Health Services, and a national giant, UnitedHealth? Hope? Delusion? The state medical association’s mouthpiece, Larry Matheis, said last week that the federal approvals were “disgusting,” that the Justice Department had done little to mitigate the effects on the state. That was a strong word for the usually modulated Matheis, exposing the raw passions that exist here over the merger. These doctors, with the help of strange bedfellows in SEIU, don’t seem ready to fold just yet.