How to fix U.S. healthcare? ‘Radical action,’ says John McDonough.

According to Harvard Gazette, John McDonough, a Harvard T.H. Chan School professor, argues that fixing America’s health‑care system requires radical action rooted in a clear understanding of how policy choices since the 1980s have driven costs far above those of peer nations. Harvard Gazette notes that he traces the surge to neoliberal reforms, market‑centric deregulation, and the rise of private equity and corporate consolidation that have shifted the system away from patient care. He says it will take radical action to restore the health system’s core values that have been eroded.

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