Director of CPAC Foundation Center for Regulatory Freedom Andrew Langer expressed the need to investigate and break up "health services cartels" UnitedHealth and AARP in an op-ed at Real Clear Health this week.
The monopolistic UnitedHealth is buying up the healthcare space and working in lockstep with the federal government to do it. Average Americans are paying the price for UnitedHealth's monopolistic behavior in the forms of bureaucracy, high costs, and restricted access to care.
"This is not the free-market capitalism we support; it’s corporate rent-seeking behavior operating at the expense of consumers and patients. And despite all their talk of holding big corporations accountable, liberal leaders in Congress, who once wore their disdain for “Big Insurers” as badges of honor, are hypocritically and quietly helping, or turning a blind eye, to facilitate much of what is occurring," wrote Langer. "Now, the House Budget Committee has another opportunity to dig into the broader impact of today’s giant health services cartels on American patients and families."
Read more from Langer at realclearhealth.com
