4sight Health January 2, 2025
The murder of a health insurance executive last month on the streets of New York and the lack of public empathy for the victim are just the most visible signs that people are fed up with the current healthcare system in the U.S. If you look around, there are plenty of other signs albeit less headline-grabbing.
I found one last month in a short research letter in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Five researchers with Brown, George Washington and Stanford universities and Georgia State College wanted to know if more doctors were joining unions as a result of more of them intentionally or unintentionally becoming employees of large medical practices, hospitals, health systems, health insurance companies, private equity...