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As the nation and the world increase efforts to implement social distancing and self quarantine, Professor Fran Quigley has written an article for Sojourners examining the repercussions of the for-profit model of healthcare in the U.S. especially during the current COVID-19 crisis.

In his article, “The Problem with Profit Motives in Health Care” (March 16, 2020, Sojourners), Quigley says, “We don’t have to guess at the damage that will be caused by financial barriers to care. A Harvard Medical School study showed that 45,000 people in the U.S. die each year because of lack of health care coverage. In the case of an aggressive infectious disease like the coronavirus, where lack of testing and treatment will impact others, that total could mushroom.”

“The fear and dysfunction associated with the coronavirus pandemic are unspeakably horrible, but they could spur the U.S. to once and for all eliminate the for-profit infection that sickens our health care system, “ Quigley writes. 

Professor Quigley teaches in the Health and Human Rights Clinic at IU McKinney. He is the author of Prescription for the People: An Activist's Guide to Making Medicine Affordable for All, published by Cornell University Press in 2017.