Open Markets Institute invites you to the second in a two-part panel series focused on how concentration in the American hospital sector is creating a crisis in care quality.

Building a Truly ‘Public’ Health Care System 

Thursday, August 6 at 1 p.m. EDT

Panelists Include:

Shannon Brownlee, senior vice president, Lown Institute; author of Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine is Making Us Sicker and Poorer 

Udit Thakur, research associate, Open Markets Institute; co-author of “An Epidemic of Greed” in the July special issue of Washington Monthly; labor and public-interest organizer

Kavita Patel, practicing primary care physician and nonresident fellow, Brookings Institution; former director of policy for the Office of Intergovernmental Affairs and Public Engagement, Obama administration

Moderator:

Phillip Longman, policy director at Open Markets Institute; co-author of “An Epidemic of Greed” in the July special issue of Washington Monthly; author of Best Care Anywhere: Why VA Health Care is Better than Yours

The U.S. health care system is increasingly dominated by monopolistic corporations. They own and operate most of our local health care delivery systems, including hospitals and doctors’ practices. 

These giant platforms also control many of the local markets for health insurance, giving them the ability to operate as both providers and purchasers of health care. As this concentration of corporate power increases, physicians, nurses, and other frontline health care professionals find their working conditions deteriorating, as they are forced to maximize corporate margins at the expense of patients and their social mission.  

Please join us for a conversation about the potential for a new mass movement of patient-activists and mission-driven providers dedicated to making sure that those who control our health care system serve the public interest.

Visit our Health and the Public Interest page to learn more about Open Markets Institute's work.