Critical Condition: How UPMC’s Monopoly Power Harms Workers and Patients
January 19, 2023 — "Critical Condition" lays out the effect of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center’s monopoly and monopsony power have on hospital workers and patients in the Pittsburgh area and provides policy recommendations for every level of government to rein in anti-competitive behavior.
The American Prospect: Another Private Equity–Style Hospital Raid Kills a Busy Urban Hospital
September 12, 2022 — In The American Prospect, Economic Liberties' Senior Fellow Moe Tkacik dissected how hospitals are often worth more to investors as real-estate than the care they provide.
The American Prospect: Big Health Care Is Already Too Big
September 2, 2022 — In The American Prospect, Economic Liberties' Research Director Matt Stoller and NCPA's General Counsel Matt Seiler dissect the consequences of the UnitedHealthcare-Change Healthcare merger.
Syracuse.com: Upstate-Crouse merger needs more scrutiny, not less | Opinion
August 31, 2022 — In an op-ed for Syracuse.com, Economic Liberties' Director of State & Local Policy Pat Garofalo discusses the latest hospital merger moving through Syracuse and makes the case for why "New York regulators and lawmakers should not only reject this deal, but repeal the underlying legislation that could make it so damaging."
The Pharmacy Benefit Mafia: The Secret Health Care Monopolies Jacking Up Drug Prices and Abusing Patients and Pharmacists
June 22, 2022 — Designed to catalogue the ways PBMs wield their power to exploit patients, pharmacists, doctors and our government, "The Pharmacy Benefit Mafia" details PBMs’ abusive business practices, their history of skirting regulation, and how the FTC’s recent efforts can put power back into the hands of patients and pharmacists.