Vladeck Redux: Our Endlessly Imperfect American Health Care System.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- McDonough, John E.,
- Source
- American Journal of Public Health; May2023, Vol. 113 Issue 5, p477-479, 3p
- Subject
- Policy sciences
COVID-19 pandemic
Health care industry
Health policy
Practical politics
Serial publications
Public health
Health care reform
United States
- Language
- ISSN
- 00900036
The author comments on Bruce Vladeck's 2003 article "Universal Health Insurance in the United States: Reflections on the Past, the Present, and the Future" which offers historical-cultural and structural-political explanations for the U.S.' lack of universal health insurance. Topics discussed include Vladeck's historical-cultural explanations for the laggard status of U.S. health insurance coverage that are relevant in 2023 and Vladeck's political-structural explanations.