Rethinking Antitrust

#32: A Dose of Competition: Improving Health Care by Removing Regulatory Barriers to Entry

Episode Summary

Katie Ambrogi joins the podcast to discuss some of the many regulations that limit entry into health care markets.  Katie is a former FTC attorney, with over a decade of experience at the FTC, most recently in the Office of Policy Planning, where she focused on antitrust health care enforcement and antitrust health care policy.

Episode Notes

Katie Ambrogi joins the podcast to discuss some of the many regulations that limit entry into health care markets.  Katie is a former FTC attorney, with over a decade of experience at the FTC, most recently in the Office of Policy Planning, where she focused on antitrust health care enforcement and antitrust health care policy. 

Links:

Federal Trade Commission, Policy Perspectives on Certificates of Public Advantage (FTC Staff Paper, 2022)

Competition Matters, Physician Group and Healthcare Facility Merger Study (Mike Vita, Deputy Director Research and Management, Bureau of Economics, Federal Trade Commission) (April 2021)

United States Department of Health & Human Services, United States Department of the Treasury, Department of Labor, Reforming America’s Healthcare System Through Choice and Competition (2018)

Federal Trade Commission, Options to Enhance Occupational Licensing Portability (FTC Staff Paper, 2018)

Federal Trade Commission, Competition and the Regulation of Advanced Practice Nurses (FTC Staff Paper, 2014)

Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice, Improving Health Care: A Dose of Competition (2004)

Timothy J. Muris, Chairman, Federal Trade Commission, Everything Old is New Again: Health Care and Competition in the 21st Century (Nov. 2002).

Rethinking Antitrust # 27: Are Health Care Markets Competitive? (A conversation with Marty Gaynor)