“Hospital Mergers Kill”: An Economists’ Exercise in Reality Distortion
The Health Care Blog
JANUARY 6, 2025
By JEFF GOLDSMITH In late June, 2024, two economists, Zarek Brot-Goldberg and Zack Cooper, from the University of Chicago and Yale respectively, released an economic analysis arguing that hospital mergers damage local economies and result in an increase in deaths by suicide and drug overdoses in the markets where mergers occur.
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