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The Hidden Monopoly: How Healthcare Platforms Threaten Competition

The Hidden Monopoly: How Healthcare Platforms Threaten Competition

Update: 2025-05-23
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Jonathan Kanter (former DOJ Antitrust) and Martin Gaynor (Carnegie Mellon Professor and former FTC official) join The Capitol Forum to discuss their groundbreaking paper, The Rise of Healthcare Platforms. They explain how companies like UnitedHealth have evolved into sprawling conglomerates—combining insurer, provider, pharmacy, and PBM functions—and why this consolidation threatens both market competition and patient care.



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The Hidden Monopoly: How Healthcare Platforms Threaten Competition

The Hidden Monopoly: How Healthcare Platforms Threaten Competition