Leading health insurers such as UnitedHealthcare, WellPoint, and Humana have retained CRA to assess the competitive effects of mergers and present our findings to federal and state regulators. Our experts have analyzed the product and geographic markets for commercial and government-sponsored health plans, the likelihood that buy-side market power could be exercised, the competitive constraints of entry and expansion, and the effect of regulations and oversight on plan pricing and quality.
The politician and the judge: Implications for competition policy
Drawing on the historical evolution of antitrust policy, the authors argue that some increase in politicisation is likely an inevitable result of the expansion...