S O A R I N G P R I V A T E E Q U I T Y I N V E S T M E N T I N T H E H E A L T H C A R E S E C T O R : C O N S O L I D A T I O N A C C E L E R A T E D , C O M P E T I T I O N U N D E R M I N E D , A N D P A T I E N T S A T R I S K RICHARD M. SCHEFFLER LAURA M. ALEXANDER JAMES R. GODWIN M A Y 1 8 , 2 0 2 1 AUTHORS Richard M. Scheffler is a Distinguished Professor of Health Economics and Public Policy in the Graduate Schools of Public Health and Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley and Director of the Nicholas C. Petris Center on Health Care Markets and Consumer Welfare (petris.org) at UC Berkeley. Corresponding author,
[email protected]. Laura M. Alexander is Vice President of Policy, American Antitrust Institute (AAI). AAI is an independent non-profit education, research, and advocacy organization. Its mission is to advance the role of competition in the economy, protect consumers, and sustain the vitality of the antitrust laws. For more information, see www.antitrustinstitute.org. James R. Godwin is a researcher at the Nicholas C. Petris Center on Health Care Markets and Consumer Welfare and a PhD Candidate in Health Policy & Management at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health.