Antitrust Chronicle – ANTITRUST & Obamacare

Dear Readers,

Obama Care, which attempts to increase coverage at less cost, has brought a classic cost-benefit question in health care to the forefront: How to improve health care while controlling costs? What will be the long-term impact of having ‘low health care costs’ as policy objective of the health care regime? What are the adjustments that antitrust law may have to make to accommodate the goals of healthcare policy that may be not be aligned with the policy goals of antitrust law? Ho