Anti-competitive Practices
More Oversight of Vertical Mergers Needed
When insurance companies acquire health care providers and pharmacy benefit managers, it raises fundamental questions about the extent to which they will act on behalf of their customers.
Vertical Mergers Lead to Higher Costs
What happens when health insurers, PBMs, pharmacies and providers are all owned by the same entity? Prices go up for employers and their workers.
Health Care Prices Too High for Consumers
The United States is facing a crisis when it comes to health care costs. Prices for lifesaving care and drugs are simply too high for consumers.
Health Care Industry Consolidation Raises Costs
Hospital acquisitions and mergers aren’t producing better outcomes or healthier people – only higher costs.
Anti-competitive Business Practices Fact Sheet
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Anti-competitive Business Practices Talking Points
These talking points can be used to create communications related to anti-trust enforcement and anticompetitive business practices.
Fighting Anti-trust Enforcement and Anti-competitive Practices
We need stronger health care anti-trust enforcement, including prohibitions on anticompetitive practices, to address the problems of industry consolidation, market power and high prices.
Health Care Market Failure Must Be Addressed
Where markets have failed entirely or where there is no market, federal policymakers have a responsibility to directly manage health care prices.