All week, we’ve been publishing stories on what’s wrong with the business of health care, and how corporations find new ways to bolster their profits even at the expense of providing adequate patient care. As corporate boardrooms cut costs to line shareholder pockets, both doctors and patients are at a disadvantage. Is there a way out?

For our August 2023 issue, Harold Meyerson wrote about the growing trend of doctors unionizing. The profession once saw themselves as wholly separate from the labor movement, but lately increasing numbers of doctors are turning to unionization to advocate for themselves and their patients. Interns and residents are part of what polling reveals to be the most pro-union generation in nearly 60 years, and they have won organizing victories in some of America’s most prestigious hospitals. You can read the rest of the piece here.

This story is part of our ongoing series on the business of health care—the inner workings of the monopolies and cartels extracting ever-greater sums for ever-lousier outcomes, and the policies and protocols pushing doctors and nurses to the brink. You can read the entire series here.