In Healthcare, Nova Scholar Diana Fishbein and coauthors integrate findings to demonstrate how corporate profit maximization functions as a cross-cutting driver of health disparities and premature mortality in the United States.
The authors discuss how market forces, financial incentives, and business models in healthcare can affect decision-making in ways that extend beyond individual patients to communities and systems. The piece emphasizes the importance of prevention, public policy, and structural change in addressing persistent health disparities and avoidable harm.
The article calls for greater attention to how economic priorities intersect with health, and for a stronger focus on policies and practices that promote long-term well-being rather than short-term profit. It contributes to ongoing conversations about reforming healthcare systems to better support population health and equity.
