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Charles Sauer: Government Policy Is Fueling Hospital Consolidation

Market Institute President Charles Sauer joined The Steve Gruber Show to discuss hospital consolidation, rising health care costs, and the government policies that are distorting the market. Sauer argued that consolidation itself isn’t necessarily the problem. In a functioning free market, mergers and acquisitions can create efficiencies and give entrepreneurs Read more…

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Markets reward firms that earn trust. Safeguards that caught unauthorized sales of patient data now face an antitrust investigation. Treating those safeguards as an antitrust problem tells every vendor that investing in security is a liability, and patients are the ones left

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America's innovators should be celebrated for protecting consumers, not punished for their success. Epic is demonstrating that patient privacy and technological progress go hand in hand. Washington should encourage that success, not undermine it with misguided antitrust theories.

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America's innovators should be celebrated for protecting consumers, not punished for their success. Epic is demonstrating that patient privacy and technological progress go hand in hand. Washington should encourage that success, not undermine it with misguided antitrust theories.

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The FTC apparently sees an algorithm and assumes there must be a crime somewhere inside it.

Personalized pricing can mean discounts, loyalty rewards, better matching of supply and demand, and lower prices for consumers.

Deception is already illegal. Punish it when it happens.

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