Department of Justice Secures Key Settlements in Healthcare and Housing

Attorney General Gale Slater from the Justice Department recently achieved significant victories in the realms of healthcare and housing competition.

Slater announced that in collaboration with state co-judicial officers, the DOJ has reached a settlement mandating United Health and Amezijee to divest from 164 home hygiene and hospice locations.

She referred to this sale as “the largest settlement of this species,” indicating its importance.

In recent days, the DOJ Antitrust Division secured two substantial wins for American consumers in healthcare and housing. Firstly, we compelled UnitedHealth to sell at least 164 home sanitation and hospice facilities across 19 states, marking it as the largest settlement of its kind.

This agreement prevents UnitedHealthcare from gaining excessive market share in various locales, including Alabama, Maryland, Georgia, Kentucky, and Tennessee. Consequently, hundreds of thousands of elderly individuals, hospice patients, and their families will retain access to affordable, quality care options.

She also noted that American nurses can “compete for important tasks that employers do in their communities.”

In another significant achievement, the DOJ’s antitrust division reached a settlement with Greyster, the largest landlord in the U.S., to dismantle their “algorithm pricing scheme.”

Regarding the second victory, the antitrust division settled with Greyster, who has committed to ending their algorithm-driven pricing approach. Although this fixed pricing might seem advanced and complex, it’s often just a basic conspiracy among competing landlords.

Slater explained, “As part of this conspiracy, Greyster worked with other landlords using algorithms that suggested daily rental prices based on shared sensitive data, effectively undermining competitors’ rental pricing.”

Slater highlighted that “millennial Americans who allocate a significant portion of their income to rent will particularly benefit from our actions.”

She stated, “At the DOJ, we take pride in working for them to foster a competitive rental market.”

Slater’s comments resonated with concerns many have about the rental market, acknowledging that millennials often spend around a third of their monthly income on rent. She reinforced the department’s efforts to protect consumers from anti-competitive price hikes.

In July, the antitrust division also filed a statement regarding a case that alleged a conspiracy among major technology companies and a prominent media organization to censor a group founded by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is affiliated with the Department of Health and Human Services.

Taylor Van Kirk, a spokesman for Vice President J.D. Vance, remarked that Slater, who previously served as an economic policy advisor in Vance’s Senate office, is a “wise” individual and a valuable asset to the Trump administration.