Quote: The challenges of antitrust enforcement in health care

The complexity of this undertaking highlights a fundamental enforcement reality. If it’s this hard for regulators to demonstrate why a patently worrisome acquisition should be blocked, it is even less likely that they will investigate or attempt to halt mergers for which potential effects are unclear. […]

Consolidation will surely continue before we can determine whether it is benign.

– Leemore Dafny, The New England Journal of Medicine

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Austin Frakt, PhD, is co-Editor-in-Chief of The Incidental Economist and tweets at @afrakt. His day job is Director of the Partnered Evidence-based Policy Resource Center at the Boston VA Healthcare System, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. He is also a Professor with the Department of Health Law, Policy and Management at the Boston University’s School of Public Health, a Principal Research Scientist with the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Health Services Research.

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