The Justice Department has established an Anticompetitive Regulations Task Force “… to advocate for the elimination of anticompetitive state and federal laws and regulations that undermine free market competition and harm consumers, workers, and businesses.”
The task force will seek information from the public “… about laws and regulations that make it more difficult for businesses to compete effectively, especially in markets that have the greatest impact on American households…” Among those markets is health care, which in its news release announcing the task force the Justice Department writes that
Laws and regulations in healthcare markets too often discourage doctors and hospitals from providing low-cost, high-quality healthcare and instead encourage overbilling and consolidation. These kinds of unnecessary anticompetitive regulations put affordable healthcare out of reach for millions of American families.
Learn more about the task force and its work from this Justice Department news release, the Anticompetitive Regulations Task force web page, and the Fierce Healthcare article “DOJ unveils deregulation taskforce, names healthcare among early targets.”