Revising the U.S. Merger Guidelines

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James Langenfeld, Dec 16, 2009

As a contributor to the 1992 Guidelines revision and the 1993 Statements of Antitrust Enforcement Policy in Health Care, I am aware of the challenges that face the agencies in achieving consensus on potentially revising a very important policy document. Both the current Horizontal and Non-Horizontal Merger Guidelines in many ways do not reflect the practices of the agencies. In addition, there has be