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Health Care

Americans spend significantly more on health care than any other country. Why? Answers to this question range from hospital monopolies to perverse incentives to opaque pricing to medical licensing to pharmaceutical firms abusing IP practices to “creeping consolidation.” Why is the US health care system so broken? And what can antirust do about it? Catch-up on our coverage of antitrust and the US health care system.

Antitrust and Competition

Antitrust Enforcement Is Not Enough to Address Anticompetitive Conduct in Pharmaceutical Markets. Market-Oriented Legal Reform is Needed.

Alden Abbott
Federal antitrust enforcement has been robust and effective in promoting prescription drug market competition and thereby enhancing consumer welfare. Antitrust enforcement in itself, however,...
Antitrust and Competition

Competition Problems in Prescription Drug Market

Michael Kades
Although not the sole cause of high prescription drug costs, abusive practices that distort competition contribute to the problem. Too many companies exclude competition...
Antitrust and Competition

Why the FTC Should Consider Size in Drug Mergers

Patricia M. Danzon
Large pharmaceutical firms retain their dominance through size-related advantages in three areas: contracting, marketing and selling, and financing. When reviewing pharmaceutical mergers, the Federal...
Antitrust and Competition

The Covid-19 Pandemic Should Not Delay Actions to Prevent Anticompetitive Consolidation in US Health Care Markets

Leemore Dafny
Harvard Business School professor Leemore Dafny lays out potential reforms to assist agencies in halting anticompetitive acquisitions and practices, and to preserve and promote...
Antitrust and Competition

Invigorating Competition in Health Care Markets: Is Rate Regulation Needed?

Tim Greaney
It now appears that market concentration may be the leading cause of America’s health care cost crisis. If the United States is going to...
Antitrust and Competition

Opening the Black Box: The Hidden Costs of Data-Driven Mergers in Health Care

Theodosia Stavroulaki
Vertical data-driven mergers between health insurers and drug suppliers may facilitate health insurers’ efforts to discriminate against vulnerable populations, leaving them without meaningful access...
Antitrust and Competition

How the FTC Protected the Market Power of Pharmacy Benefit Managers

Stacy Mitchell
Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs) were established in the 1960s to control drug costs but have since morphed into one of the most highly concentrated...
Antitrust and Competition

What Is the Price of a Prescription Drug?

Robin Feldman
Due to lack of transparency and mystery rebates, which are considered trade secrets, figuring out the price of a prescription drug is devilishly difficult....
Covid-19

“The Way Insurance Companies Have Rigged Our Health Care System, They’re Probably Going to Emerge as Financial Winners from This”

Asher Schechter
Author and former health insurance executive Wendell Potter explains to ProMarket why the employer-based health care system in the US is “collapsing” and why health...
Antitrust and Competition

The Amazon of Health Care: How CVS Is Evolving From a Drug Store Chain into a Tech Platform

Matt Stoller
CVS is built on a dominant chain of drug stores, but it is now trying to turn itself into a "uniquely powerful platform" for...
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