Lawmakers and residents speak out against Parkview after the Guardian investigated the hospital chain for high costs

Last fall, Doug Allen, the president of a plastic molding firm in Brimfield, Indiana, was forced into a difficult decision.

Since 2007, the costs of his employees’ health insurance had shot up around 275%, expenditures that were eating into his profit margins and far outpacing the rate of inflation, according to his records. But Allen didn’t blame his small local insurer.