Yale School of Public Health, June 3, 2025
In a letter to ranking Senate leaders, public health and policy researchers at Yale University and the University
The Impact of Health Insurance on Mortality
By Helen Levy, Ph.D. and Thomas C. Buchmueller, Ph.D.
Annual Review of Public Health, April 2025
Abstract
A 2008 review in theĀ Annual Review of Public HealthĀ considered the question
Growth of Private Equity and Hospital Consolidation in Primary Care and Price Implications
By Yashaswini Singh, Ph.D., M.P.A.; Nandita Radhakrishnan, B.A.; Loren Adler, M.S.; and Christopher Whaley, Ph.D.
JAMA Health Forum, Jan. 17, 2025
Abstract
Importance:Ā Consolidation of physician practices by hospitals
Less Care at Higher CostāThe Medicare Advantage Paradox
By Adam Gaffney, M.D., M.P.H.; Stephanie Woolhandler, M.D., M.P.H.; and David U. Himmelstein, M.D.
JAMA Internal Medicine, July 10, 2024
Abstract: Celebrating a Medicare Advantage (MA) milestoneāenrollment
Taking Advantage
Physicians for a National Health Program, May 23, 2024
Executive Summary: Medicare Advantage (MA), the privately-administered version of Traditional Medicare (TM), is causing
Medicare Advantage and Vertical Consolidation in Health Care
By Hayden Rooke-Ley
American Economic Liberties Project, April 30, 2024
A new wave of health care consolidation is underway. Health insurance and retail conglomerates are rapidly acquiring
The effect of health-care privatisation on the quality of care
By Benjamin Goodair, M.Sc. and Aaron Reeves, Ph.D.
The Lancet Public Health, March 2024
Summary: Over the past 40 years, many health-care systems that were once publicly
In 2023, Big Drug Companies Raked in $684 Billion and Spent $106 Billion Rewarding Shareholders
Protect Our Care, Greed Watch, February 28, 2024
Protect Our Care is releasing a new report detailing pharmaceutical companiesā sky-high revenues as they continue charging unaffordable
Rape-Related Pregnancies in the 14 US States With Total Abortion Bans
By Samuel L. Dickman, M.D.; Kari White, Ph.D.; David U. Himmelstein, M.D.; Emily Lupez, M.D.; Elizabeth Schrier, M.D.; Steffie Woolhandler, M.D., M.P.H.
JAMA Internal Medicine, January
Administrationās Share of Personnel in Veterans Health Administration and Private Sector Care
By Steffie Woolhandler, M.D., M.P.H.; Andrew Toporek, B.S.; Jian Gao, Ph.D.; Eileen Moran, MS4; Andrew Wilper, M.D., M.P.H.; David U. Himmelstein, M.D.
JAMA Network Open, January
Our Payments, Their Profits
Physicians for a National Health Program, October 4, 2023
Introduction: By our estimate, and based on 2022 spending, Medicare Advantage overcharges taxpayers by
The Association of Childbirth with Medical Debt in the USA, 2019ā2020
By Jordan Cahn, M.D., M.Sc.; Ayesha Sundaram, M.D.; Roopa Balachandar, M.D.; Alexandra Berg, M.D.; Aaron Birnbaum, M.D.; Stephanie Hastings, D.O.; Matthew Makansi, M.D.; Emily Romano,
