Health care consolidation is the biggest reform barrier
An excerpt from America’s Wrong Turn: US Health Care in the Neoliberal Era.
Let’s consider U.S. corporate consolidation and antitrust policy in the context of health and medical care sectors. Concentration, mergers, and acquisitions are vital parts of corporate strategy among all forms of health and medical firms, a phenomenon at every stage and level across our dizzyingly complex system. In this section, we examine insurers, hospitals, physicians, pharmaceuticals, and …
Health care consolidation is the biggest reform barrier
