U.S. Healthcare at a Crossroads: Greater Competition or a Descent into Monopoly?
Healthcare in the United States produces miraculous cures, the most advanced and effective treatments in the world, while simultaneously producing inappropriate and low quality treatments, exorbitant prices, inequitable and unfair access to care, exploited healthcare workers, and a bewildering and incomprehensible thicket of barriers to understanding and navigating the system. A large part of these problems are due to lack of competition in healthcare markets. In this talk Assistant Attorney General Jonathan Kanter will review what’s happening in healthcare markets and where they are heading, what the implications are for patients, workers, doctors, and our society generally, and discuss what can and is being done to make healthcare markets work for the benefit of all Americans.
Date: 12th Nov, 2024
Time: 12:30 - 1:45pm
Location: Hamburg Hall - HBH 1202, 4800 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh PA 15213 (Parking Info)
Lunch will be provided.
Jonathan Kanter is the Assistant Attorney General, U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division. He is responsible for the direction and execution of antitrust enforcement and competition policy at the Department of Justice. Kanter is an acknowledged global leader in antitrust, emphasizing aggressive enforcement and new, forward looking approaches. Kanter has led the Division in actions against anticompetitive conduct by firms such as Google, Visa, Live Nation and Ticketmaster, Apple, RealPage, and JetBlue and Spirit. He is committed to making healthcare, one of the largest and most important sectors of the U.S. economy, work to benefit all Americans.