IN MY OPINION: It’s time to regulate health care companies that are bleeding Wisconsin dry

“Corporations engaged in interstate commerce should be regulated if they are found to exercise a license working to the public injury.” Those were the words of President Theodore Roosevelt. He filed anti-trust actions against 44 corporations while in office.

Flash forward 120 years. Today, we consumers of health care have come to understand that mergers of hospital corporations have a primary goal: higher prices by the merged companies. That’s the main reason behind consolidations that have been rampant in the last decade in Wisconsin.