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Shkreli Awards Expose Profiteering in U.S. Healthcare Crisis

12/11/2025

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Shkreli Awards highlight severe abuses in American healthcare and are named after Martin Shkreli.
The awards expose cases such as hospitals threatening families over payments.
Dr. Vikas Saini, president of the Lown Institute, says medicine suffers from moral decay driven by profit motives.
He argues reform requires collective action and external pressure because the current system benefits those who resist reform, and the awards will be announced on December 11.

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Shkreli Awards highlight severe abuses in American healthcare and are named after Martin Shkreli.
The awards expose cases such as hospitals threatening families over payments.
Dr. Vikas Saini, president of the Lown Institute, says medicine suffers from moral decay driven by profit motives.
He argues reform requires collective action and external pressure because the current system benefits those who resist reform, and the awards will be announced on December 11.