On: Financiers bought up anesthesia practices, then ra...

[cs702]

People under intense pressure to make gobs of money bought up [something or other], then raised prices.

Duh.

[bsder → cs702]

Yes, but you need reporting like this to point out when this consolidation is happening where you don't expect.

Veterinarians, for example, have also gone through this process. Most people wouldn't expect that.

You won't get anti-trust enforcement until people start to realize that we need anti-trust enforcement. And the start of that is informing them.

[NewJazz → cs702]

The whole point of this reporting is to uncover anticompetitive actions. Duh, it happens. But also we don't know where and when. This reporting helps pressure regulators to address these anticompteitive moves.