1. Class, Power, Health and Healthcare
2. The Medical Miracle?
3. To Live and Die in 19th Century America: A Class Based
Explanation of the Rise and Fall of Infectious Disease
4. Death in Our Times: The Exceptional Class Context for Chronic
Disease in America
5. The Political Economy of US Healthcare: The Medical Industrial
Complex
6. Three Easy Lessons
Notes
Index
Robert Chernomas is Professor of Economics at the University of
Manitoba, Canada. He is co-author (with Ian Hudson) of Economics in
the Twenty-first Century: A Critical Perspective (University of
Toronto Press, 2016) and To Live and Die in America: Class, Power
Health and Health Care (Pluto Press, 2013).
Ian Hudson is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of
Manitoba, Canada. He is the co-author (with Robert Chernomas) of
Economics in the Twenty-first Century: A Critical Perspective
(University of Toronto Press, 2016) and To Live and Die in America:
Class, Class, Power Health and Health Care (Pluto Press, 2013).
'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'
*Dean Baker, co-founder of the Center for Economic and Policy
Research, Washington DC*
'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'
*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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