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Health Policy Journal Club, June 2026

The health policy journal club is an interdisciplinary, inter-professional group convened monthly by the Farley Health Policy Center to discuss timely topics in health policy. A curated selection of high-yield articles provides the basis for discussion. Past topics include income inequality and health, professionalism in medicine, patients as consumers, and adjusting payment for measures of social risk. This page presents the reading list from the most recent journal club.  

The Farley Center’s June Health Policy Journal Club focused on corporatization in health care, drawing from a curated series of New England Journal of Medicine articles examining how financial incentives, consolidation, and private investment are reshaping care delivery. The discussion explored key questions around corporate influence on clinical decision making, health system priorities, equity, and the future of academic medicine.

Contextualizing Corporatization in Health Care

• Fuse Brown EC. Defining Health Care “Corporatization.” N Engl J Med. 2025;393(1):1-11.
• Tomes N. A Gilded Age for Patients? The Broken Promises of Profit-Driven Medicine. N Engl J Med. 2025;393(6):521-524. 
• Chandra A, Shepard M. The Corporatization Deal — Health Care, Investors, and the Profit Priority. N Engl J Med. 2025;393(9):833-835.  

How Corporatization Shapes Health Systems

• Lipstein S. Insight into Corporate Governance — What Motivates Hospitals and Delivery Systems. N Engl J Med. 2025;393(13):1249-1251. 
• Singh Y. The Antitrust Antidote to Hospital and Nursing Home Corporatization — Promises and Pitfalls. N Engl J Med. 2025;393(18):1761-1764. 
• Cutler DM, Huckman RS. Has Corporatization Met Its Match? The Challenge of Making Money by Keeping People Healthy. N Engl J Med. 2025;393(22):2177-2180. 
• La Forgia A. From Patients to Consumers — The Corporatization of Ambulatory Care. N Engl J Med. 2026;394(1):1-3.  

From Policy to Practice: Real World Impacts of Corporatization

• Dafny L. Health Insurance after Corporatization — What Next? N Engl J Med. 2026;394(6):521-523. 
• Yearby R, Alsan M. Private Equity’s Transformation of American Medicine — Implications for Health Equity. N Engl J Med. 2026;394(10):937-940.
• Casalino LP. Physicians, Corporatization, and the Unmeasured Quality of Care. N Engl J Med. 2026;394(13):1249-1251.
• Vyas JM. From Mission to Margin in Academic Medicine — The Impact of Corporate Medicine on Medical Training. N Engl J Med. 2026;394(18):1769-1772.