Miles Meline

1 month ago | ldi.upenn.edu | Chris Tachibana |Miles Meline

Payouts to shareholders from large, for-profit, publicly traded health care companies totaled $2.6 trillion from 2001 through 2022, LDI Senior Fellow Victor Roy and colleagues report. Over this period, the number of corporations in the study sample in a given year doubled, from 30 to about 60, but payouts increased more than 300%, from $54 billion in 2001 to more than $170 billion in 2022 (Figure 1). “Only 19 companies—20% of our sample—were responsible for 80% of this activity,” Roy said.

May 23, 2024 | ldi.upenn.edu | Miles Meline

The seismic departures in the nursing workforce threaten to impair access and quality of care across the country.