In promoting health care reform in 2009, President Obama stated, “when it comes to health care spending, we are on an unsustainable course that threatens the financial stability of families, businesses and government itself.” We are still on that “unsustainable course” thirteen years...

In a review of recent antitrust measures undertaken by the Biden Administration, this paper observes that antitrust theory and policy remains one decade behind in preempting and preventing the many harms from consolidation in healthcare markets. A version of of this article was delivered in...

In this paper, we analyze the interplay between Congressional politics, the actions of the executive branch, and hospitals’ regulated Medicare fee-for-service payments. We focus on the 2003 Medicare Modernization Act (MMA) and analyze a provision in the law—Section 508—that raised certain...

How does the adoption of enterprise information systems (EIS) affect M&A activity in large organizations? Prior scholarship suggests EIS adoption dramatically increases the agility of the firms and facilitates streamlining the organization around competitive advantages. However, recognizing that...

Part I of this paper considers the historical foundations, motivations, and evolution of veterans’ disability and employment legislation in the United States. Utilizing disability and employment as its framework, Part II then defines, describes, and critiques contemporary policies for disabled...