To Live and Die in America: Class, Power, Health and Healthcare (The Future of World Capitalism) - Hardcover

Chernomas, Robert; Hudson, Ian

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 074533217X ISBN 13: 9780745332178

Verlag: Pluto Press, 2013

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Book by Chernomas Robert Hudson Ian

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A fascinating account of how the strength of corporate interests and the relative weakness of unions have given the United States a bloated and inefficient health care system. The result is a system that at great cost provides people with a level of care that is often worse than countries which spend half as much. (Dean Baker, co-founder of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, Washington DC)

This book should become a classic. It should be read by everyone who feels that power in the United States is very unevenly distributed, not only by gender and race, but primarily by class. (Vicente Navarro, Professor of Health and Public Policy, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of International Health Services)

This timely exposé will strike a deep chord with the millions of Americans who live daily with health care insecurity. Clear, gripping and moving, this book transforms our understanding of the origins and underbelly of US social policy. Most importantly, it shows how a fairer realignment of class power can enable the US to strive for the kind of equitable policies shared by countless societies - both high and low-income - in good times and bad. (Anne-Emanuelle Birn, Canada Research Chair in International Health at the University of Toronto and co-author of Global Health in a Dynamic World (2009).)

A cogent and penetrating analysis of health outcomes in America, outlining the historical role played by unions in contributing to public health services critical to all citizens. A must-read for all who embrace the goals for fairness shared by the 99 percent. (Paul Moist, National President, Canadian Union of Public Employees)

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To Live and Die in America details how the United States has among the worst indicators of health in the industrialised world and at the same time spends significantly more on its health care system than any other industrial nation.

Robert Chernomas and Ian Hudson explain this contradictory phenomenon as the product of the unique brand of capitalism that has developed in the US. It is this particular form of capitalism that created both the social and economic conditions that largely influence health outcomes and the inefficient, unpopular and inaccessible health care system that is incapable of dealing with them.

The authors argue that improving health in America requires a change in the conditions in which people live and work as well as a restructured health care system.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Pluto Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• ISBN 10: 074533217X
• ISBN 13: 9780745332178
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 248