Jane M. Zhu, M.D., M.P.P., M.S.H.P., Hayden Rooke-Ley, J.D., and Erin Fuse Brown, J.D., M.P.H. In the late 1800s, corporations began hiring U.S. physicians and profiting directly from their services without being bound by professional ethics considerations. Concerned about this…
Albert I. Ko, M.D., Salim S. Abdool Karim, M.B., Ch.B., Ph.D., Carlos Morel, M.D., Ph.D., Soumya Swaminathan, M.B., B.S., M.D., Peter Daszak, Ph.D., and Gerald T. Keusch, M.D. The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), responding to audits conducted by…
Sahil Sandhu, M.Sc., Michael Liu, M.Phil., and Rishi K. Wadhera, M.D., M.P.P. The U.S. health care system ranks last on measures of equity among similar high-income countries.1 Although policymakers and payers have increasingly looked to hospitals to help reduce inequities, there’s…
Marcella Alsan, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H., Crystal S. Yang, J.D., Ph.D., James R. Jolin, Lucy Tu, and Josiah D. Rich, M.D., M.P.H. The U.S. Constitution does not guarantee a right to health care. Yet since 1976, the Supreme Court has held…
Eric Reinhart, M.D. In 1994, at 26 years of age, Dennis Wayne Hope was placed in solitary confinement in a Texas prison after he had escaped and remained free for 2 months. Until he was recently hospitalized, he had been…
