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In 2003, the Medicare Modernization Act added a prescription drug benefit for senior citizens—the much-debated and often-controversial Part D. Is Medicare Part D a good or bad program overall? It may not be possible to answer that question, since the drug benefit has positive as well as negative aspects. Economists Gary Engelhardt and Jonathan Gruber have put out an important new paper examining the effects of Part D in great detail. The Heritage Foundation’s Center for Policy Innovation dis...

House and Senate Medicare conferees are scrambling to find asolution to the problem of senior dumping  - which will occurwhen former employers drop current retirees into the proposed newgovernment entitlement. Roughly 10 million seniors have nocoverage. It is not too late for Congress to help those in needwithout hurting those who are not.

Welcome to Competition Currents, a monthly newsletter for Greenberg Traurig clients and colleagues highlighting significant recent developments in global antitrust and competition law.

FTC proposed new rule that would prevent employers from entering non-compete agreements with their employees. Non-compete agreements prohibit employees from working for a competing employer or starting a competing business, typically within a set geographic area.

Yes, but many regulatory obstacles remain.

Yes, but many regulatory obstacles remain.

Pharmaceutical and health product companies poured over $372 million into federal lobbying last year, outspending every other industry.

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has announced new, higher premerger notification thresholds. The new minimum size-of-transaction threshold will be $111.4 million.

On January 26, 2023, the FTC published a Notice in the Federal Register announcing the latest annual adjustments to the statutory thresholds under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976 (15 U.S.C. § 18a) (HSR).

South Mill Champs, one of North America's largest growers and suppliers of fresh mushrooms and mushroom products announced the grand opening of...