Health care mergers and acquisitions have risen steadily in recent years, along with corporate ownership. These trends have dramatically altered local health care markets, often leaving employees and employers with less choice, higher prices and lower quality care.
To protect consumers, states have ramped up their efforts to challenge harmful mergers, strengthen their health care market oversight programs, confront anticompetitive practices and adopt innovative strategies that increase market competition.
As Congress and the Executive Branch consider the impact of consolidation and private equity ownership on health care affordability, what can they learn from these state-led efforts? What impact have these state solutions had on those who pay for health care? Is protecting competition enough?
Join the Georgetown Center on Health Insurance Reforms, policymakers, experts and employers to discuss these questions and how Congress can help make employer-sponsored health care more affordable for all. Moderated by Reed Abelson from The New York Times, the discussion will feature:
- Karen Davenport, Georgetown Center on Health Insurance Reforms
- Stacy Sanders, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
- David Seltz, Massachusetts Health Policy Commission
- Erin Fuse Brown, Georgia State University College of Law
- Charles Miller, Texas 2036
Breakfast will be provided from 8:30-9 am. Program begins at 9 am.
