Zack Cooper
@zackcooperYale
Health Economist and Associate Professor @Yale @YaleSPH @YaleEconomics @YaleTobinCenter @nberpubs
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A wonderful paper by Ziad Obermeyer, Evan Flack, and Amitabh Chandra. More and more evidence of the harms of badly structured cost sharing
My latest on #pricetransparency high #hospitalprices & a lack of enforcement by FTC “Hospitals Merge For Power, While ‘Price Transparency’ Fantasy Persists” via @forbes forbes.com/sites/michaelm… Zack Cooper AHRQ
'There appears to be underenforcement of antitrust laws in the hospital sector.'
More from this working paper by #EGgrantee (s) Zarek Brot-Goldberg Zack Cooper Stuart Craig + Lev Klarnet on antitrust enforcement in the U.S. hospital sector. ⬇️
equitablegrowth.org/working-papers…
#Competition #FTC
Prediction #7: “The FTC sets its sights on healthcare monopolies” is coming true after launching a portal to submit complaints for potential investigations into healthcare companies’ monopolistic or anticompetitive practices.
fortune.com/2023/11/14/ai-…
fiercehealthcare.com/regulatory/fed…
Context here matters: the $1.3 trillion US hospital sector accounts for 6% of national GDP. According to BLS-Labor Statistics data, since 2000, prices in the hospital industry grew faster than prices in any other sector of the economy!!!