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Sat 12 Dec 2006VHI to resist any attempt to break up companyManagement and staff of the VHI are preparing to strongly resist any attempt to break up the State-owned health insurance company, write Martin Walland Mark HennessyVHI chief executive Vincent Sheridan told staff in an internal message yesterday that the company would demand that anyone arguing for such a break up provide reasoned arguments based on advantage to consumers "rather than sound bites relating to the benefits of competition" and "the evils of monopoly etc".