What To Make Of The Steward-Optum Deal

Steward Health Care is floundering, and its hospitals are in danger of closing. Now Optum has emerged as a buyer for Steward’s physician network, offering a financial lifeline but stirring up concerns by politicians and regulators.
Why is Optum buying physician practices? And is that good or bad news for the healthcare system?
TOPICS
(2:49) Steward Health Care's troubles and political concerns
(3:36) The Antitrust Act and the healthcare market
(6:32) Concerns about the for-profit and non-profit hospitals
(7:35) Redistributing hospital spending
(9:29) Should what happened with the Covid 19 pandemic make the case to keep more hospitals open?
(12:01) Impact of Optum's purchase of Atrius on healthcare services in Massachusetts
(13:55) Will Optum move towards value-based care?
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