He’s hardly alone. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., among others, are targeting vertically integrated healthcare giants as drivers of rising costs and declining competition.
They’re right about one thing — “big medicine” is real. But the healthcare giants they now condemn are, in large part, creatures of Obamacare. Democrats spent years designing policies that rewarded scale, consolidation, and vertical integration. Now they want Washington to clean up the mess those policies created.
Mark Cuban Is Right About ‘Big Medicine,’ but Wrong About the Cure
Sally C. Pipes
Mark Cuban has a new rallying cry in his campaign to fix American healthcare: “break up big medicine.”
He’s hardly alone. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., among others, are targeting vertically integrated healthcare giants as drivers of rising costs and declining competition.
They’re right about one thing — “big medicine” is real. But the healthcare giants they now condemn are, in large part, creatures of Obamacare. Democrats spent years designing policies that rewarded scale, consolidation, and vertical integration. Now they want Washington to clean up the mess those policies created.
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