Consolidating Care: A Symposium on Medicine and Market Power – LPE Project https://lpeproject.org The Law and Political Economy Project Tue, 22 Jul 2025 16:43:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 https://lpeproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cropped-LPE_Favicon_512px_BlackBG-450x450.png Consolidating Care: A Symposium on Medicine and Market Power – LPE Project https://lpeproject.org 32 32 What’s Value in Health Care? Powerful Companies Make It Hard To Know https://lpeproject.org/blog/whats-value-in-health-care-powerful-companies-make-it-hard-to-know/ Tue, 22 Jul 2025 11:00:00 +0000 https://lpeproject.org/?p=11740 This post is part of a series on the corporate consolidation and financialization of health care. Read the rest of the posts here. ** ** ** If you take them at their word, drug companies, medical device and software companies, hospitals, and their investors are committed to providing “value” to patients and the public. Gilead, the infectious disease giant, claims its medication prices “reflect the...

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]]> The Same Script: Value-Based Payment, Managed Care, and Neoliberalism https://lpeproject.org/blog/the-same-script-value-based-payment-managed-care-and-neoliberalism/ Tue, 15 Jul 2025 11:00:00 +0000 https://lpeproject.org/?p=11722 This post is part of a series on the corporate consolidation and financialization of health care. Read the rest of the posts here. ** ** ** In 2010, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) ushered in a new governing consensus in health care policy. To address persistently high costs and poor outcomes, policymakers sought to break from the “fee-for-service” payment system, which reimburses physicians for...

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]]> A Dialysis Duopoly: How Public Funding Entrenched Private Power https://lpeproject.org/blog/a-dialysis-duopoly-how-public-funding-entrenched-private-power/ Tue, 08 Jul 2025 11:00:00 +0000 https://lpeproject.org/?p=11698 This post is part of a series on the corporate consolidation and financialization of health care. Read the rest of the posts here. ** ** ** For the half-million people in the U.S. with kidney failure, survival rests in the hands of two powerful corporations—DaVita and Fresenius. Together, these companies control over 70% of the outpatient dialysis market. But the history of dialysis isn’t a simple...

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]]> State Efforts to Rein in Corporate Medicine https://lpeproject.org/blog/state-efforts-to-rein-in-corporate-medicine/ Wed, 02 Jul 2025 11:00:00 +0000 https://lpeproject.org/?p=11675 This post is part of a series on the corporate consolidation and financialization of health care. Read the rest of the posts here. ** ** ** Large corporations are increasingly dominating American health care, including physician practices. By 2023, nearly 80% of physicians were employed by for-profit hospitals or other corporate entities. For instance, the health insurance behemoth UnitedHealth...

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]]> Consolidating Care: A Symposium on Medicine and Market Power https://lpeproject.org/blog/consolidating-care-a-symposium-on-medicine-and-market-power/ Tue, 01 Jul 2025 11:00:00 +0000 https://lpeproject.org/?p=11681 This post introduces a series on the corporate consolidation and financialization of health care. Read the rest of the posts here. ** ** ** When Luigi Mangione fatally shot UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson this past December, the internet erupted with declarations of solidarity and anxious calls for condemnation. His vigilante campaign against corporate greed, and subsequent heroization...

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