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Is There An Efficient Antitrust Approach To Health Care?, Kathryn Ciano
Is There An Efficient Antitrust Approach To Health Care?, Kathryn Ciano
Kathryn Ciano
As American states and the federal government wrestle to find a solution to health care reform, some regulators are looking towards antitrust laws in the international marketplace to govern domestic health care policy. Antitrust principles dictate that antitrust authorities must intervene only when pressures become so great as to interfere with the very operations of the market. Pharmaceutical and health care markets rely on free trade and competitive global cooperation, so there is no efficient antitrust approach to health care.