Medical Economics November 13, 2024
Richard Payerchin

Key Takeaways

  • The U.S. healthcare system faces antitrust challenges, with DOJ pursuing actions to restore competition and innovation.
  • Kanter highlights the moral issue of profiteering in healthcare, particularly affecting older Americans and Medicare.
  • Vertical integration in healthcare creates barriers to competition, conflicts of interest, and regulatory manipulation.
  • Independent healthcare providers are crucial for community health, but face challenges from large, integrated healthcare entities.

Antitrust chief says the nation is at an inflection point to restore competition or pay more money for less choice and more aggravation.

The Big Healthcare platforms that have developed in recent years are ripe for government antitrust action, said the leader of the U.S. Justice Department’s (DOJ) Antitrust Division.

In a speech this week,...

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