Discussion of public health and health care policy, from a public health perspective. The U.S. spends more on medical services than any other country, but we get less for it. Major reasons include lack of universal access, unequal treatment, and underinvestment in public health and social welfare. We will critically examine the economics, politics and sociology of health and illness in the U.S. and the world.
This is a (somewhat) famous essay by one Philip E. Agre. He was a UCLA professor at the time he wrote this, in 2004. He was highly prolific in his time, but apparently grew tired of academia and retired into obscurity.
I may have something to say about this but it will reward reading the whole thing.
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