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*US vs Geisinger*

7. How would patients be hurt by the transaction?
Hospitals compete to attract patients to their facilities by offering high quality care, a broad #scope of #services, #amenities, #convenience, customer service, and attention to patient satisfaction. This competition improves access to #healthcare, reduces wait times, and improves the quality of care for all patients, including commercially insured, #Medicare, #Medicaid, and #uninsured #patients. #Hospitals also compete to be included in health insurers’ networks and this #competition enables insurers to #negotiate lower #reimbursement rates and other terms that reduce healthcare costs, all for the benefit of patients. This transaction permanently and fundamentally alters the competitive relationship between #Geisinger and #Evangelical by linking them together in a number of ways that, taken together, raise the likelihood of coordination and reduce #Geisinger
#incentivetocompete #aggressive against each other... The transaction is likely to lead to #highprices, #lowquality, and #reducedaccess to high-quality #inpatient hospital services for patients in central Pennsylvania. In addition, the transaction creates incentives for Geisinger to raise prices to commercial insurers and other #purchasers inpatient acute care...

https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1301586/dl

#Monetary Tightening and U.S. #BankFragility in 2023: Mark-to-Market Losses and #Uninsured #Depositor Runs? https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4387676 "We analyze U.S. banks’ asset exposure to a recent rise in the #InterestRates with implications for #FinancialStability #GlobalFinancialSystem #SystemicRisk #UnisuredDebt #SVB Us #BankingSystem