Six Flags and Cedar Fairs (the parent company of my beloved Cedar Point Amusement Park) have merged, with the more successful Cedar Fair owning 51% of the resulting amusement park behemoth. Like many park fans, I have followed this news with some trepidation-- Cedar Point is a tight, well-run operation with a park carefully laid out to deal with their geographic limitations (unless they dump a mountain of fill into Lake Erie, they aren't expanding any time soon), and Six Flags parks are like someone dumped some attractions in a sack, shook it up, and dumped it out.
This reminded me of an excellent analysis of hospital construction deregulation, whereby free-marketeers assumed that by reducing government regulation on construction they would improve the healthcare system. The author provides detailed arguments showing that this is mainly leading to more hospitals and more specialists located in wealthy areas and areas which already have a lot of access to hospitals. Healthcare costs aren't going down, and poor people still don't have access to healthcare when this public good is developed based on private, profit-maximizing decisions - https://www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/supply-side-healthcare/
This reminded me of an excellent analysis of hospital construction deregulation, whereby free-marketeers assumed that by reducing government regulation on construction they would improve the healthcare system. The author provides detailed arguments showing that this is mainly leading to more hospitals and more specialists located in wealthy areas and areas which already have a lot of access to hospitals. Healthcare costs aren't going down, and poor people still don't have access to healthcare when this public good is developed based on private, profit-maximizing decisions - https://www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/supply-side-healthcare/