US Healthcare in the Neoliberal Era
It took forty years of neoliberal policy choices to dig the 'profits over patients' hole the American health care system has fallen into today. How long will it take to dig us out of it? And how can we do it? John McDonough, professor of practice in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health tries to answer all of those questions in our conversation about his new book, America's Wrong Turn: US Health Care in the Neoliberal Era.
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Notes & Resources
John McDonough’s book, America’s Wrong Turn: US Health Care in the Neoliberal Era: https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/53872/americas-wrong-turn?srsltid=AfmBOoqZbNuZB2zbJAUQvbNUastWxWxwkpvvC8W_EVhY7dEoaHL2PJox
More information about Professor McDonough: https://hsph.harvard.edu/profile/john-e-mcdonough/
Milton Friedman’s, Capitalism and Freedom (1962): https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/C/bo68666099.html
Friedrich Hayek’s, The Road to Serfdom (1944): https://www.agathonlibrary.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Hayek-Friedrich-the-road-to-serfdom-text-and-documents-zlib.pdf
Matt Stoller’s book Goliath: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Goliath/Matt-Stoller/Must-Read-American-History/9781501182891
Matt Stoller’s Substack, Big: https://www.thebignewsletter.com/
PA HB 1460: https://www.palegis.us/legislation/bills/2025/hb1460
American Economic Liberties Project: https://www.economicliberties.us/
Private Equity Stakeholder Project: https://pestakeholder.org/
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