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We Need Better Research on the Relationship Between Market Power and Productivity in the Hospital Industry
Antitrust debates have largely ignored questions about the relationship between market power and productivity, and scholars have provided little guidance on the issue due to data limitations. However, data is plentiful on the hospital industry for both market power and operating costs and productivity, and researchers need to take advantage, writes David Ennis.
More Than 20 Years of Consolidation Have Led to a Dysfunctional Health Care Market
The US health care system is based on markets, which do not function as well as they could, or should. Prices are high and...
Bethany McLean’s Weekend Reading List: Free Money, Hospitals, and Private Equity Firms
Corruption, lobbying, corporate malfeasance, and frauds: a weekly unconventional selection of must-read articles by investigative journalist Bethany McLean.
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The Case for Lockdown: in Italy’s Lombardy, It Can Reduce Covid-19 Potential Fatalities from 160,000 to 25,000
According to an analysis by Bocconi University professor Carlo Favero, the number of people infected with the coronavirus in Lombardy, Northern Italy, is 120,000, while...
The Fight Against Coronavirus: What the US Can Learn from Italian Hospitals on How to Prevent a Disaster
In a Facebook post that has since become viral, Italian doctor Daniele Macchini offered a first-hand testimony from the Lombardy region, the epicenter of...
The Real Price of Health Data: Americans Don’t Want to Share Their Records for Free
The 2019 Chicago Booth/Kellogg School Financial Trust Index survey shows that 93 percent of participants don’t want to share their health data with digital...
Hospital Mergers: The Forgotten Problem of American Health Care
In the US, there are more than 100 hospital mergers every year. This increasing concentration does not lead to the promised savings, nor to...
