Lexology January 8, 2025
The change in control of the White House and the Senate that will take place later this month is expected to bring major shifts in federal antitrust enforcement. Commentators predict that the new administration will be more friendly to mergers but perhaps just as focused on reining in dominant tech companies as the Biden administration has been. Where does health care fall? The record of the first Trump administration and an active private plaintiffs’ bar suggest that managed care companies should continue to take active steps to mitigate antitrust risk and monitor key case developments in 2025 and beyond.
At the outset of the Trump-Pence administration, the Departments of Health and Human Services, Treasury, and Labor and the Federal Trade...