Health Stew II
John E McDonoughJohn E McDonough’s personal Substack on health policy, politics, and more...
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Twice weekly |
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| Issues | 39 | Founded | 2 years ago | Last Issue | 13 days ago |
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Some Public Policy Roots of Our Financialized Health & Medical Care Systems
[This commentary appeared today on the Milbank Quarterly’s Opinion Section.]
I’ve been examining how public policies have facilitated the transformation of America’s health and medical care systems into today’s financialized and commercia...
Private Equity Faces New Roadblocks by States in Buying Up US Medical Care
In a familiar dynamic, the inability or unwillingness of the federal government, especially in Congress, to stop or stall the harmful money-driven practices of private equity in US medical and health care is convincing states to establish t...
Happy 40th Birthday, EMTALA (really!)
Early in my days as a state rep in 1985, appointed to a seat on the Joint Committee on Health Care, I repeatedly heard stories of what happened to many uninsured persons who showed up for medical care at the Emergency Department (ED) of Mas...
How Much Do the Top Health Payer CEOs Make?
I am an unabashed fan of Fierce Healthcare and their related free publications, always informative, aimed at health care execs, and accessible to plebes like me. Last week they reported “what the CEOs at major for-profit payers earned last...
Preventing Medical Errors — Are Better Days Ahead?
Starting in the 1990s, widespread attention turned to the scourge of injuries to patients because of errors in medical care. Some landmarks studies and reports, as well as some widely publicized incidents across the nation, got serious cons...
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I write on US/state health policy/politics. I’m a prof at the Harvard Chan School of Public Health. I’m a former state rep and US senate staffer. I’ve done 4 books (one coming Aug. ’26.) Thanks for checking this out. — John McDonough
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