Understanding today’s corporatization of U.S. health care requires seeing it from a historical perspective, as a process that began with a change in the business model of care delivery in the 1920s.

A 27-year-old man with e-cigarette use presented with a 5-day history of fever, vomiting, diarrhea, dyspnea, and hemoptysis. A radiograph and CT scan of the chest showed patchy consolidations in ...