Is There Too Little Antitrust Enforcement in the US Hospital Sector?

Private equity’s influence on hospital performance includes permanent improvements in hospital patient volumes and revenues, reductions in full-time employees, restrained technology adoption, and improved operating margins.

Rising health care prices are passed onto employers as higher insurance premiums, which decreases their demand for labor and reduces employment, leading to lost wages, reduced tax revenue, and increased suicide and overdose rates.

Improved cookstoves reduce exposure to peak cooking emissions by 42%, though impacts on overall pollution exposure are muted by high ambient pollution. The reduction in peak emissions reduces self-reported respiratory symptoms but does not improve more quantitative diagnoses such as...