Unaffordable: American Healthcare from Johnson to Trump - Engel, Jonathan

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Résumé :
Written for nonexperts, this is a brisk and engaging history of the American healthcare system from the advent of Medicare and Medicaid in the 1960s to the impact of the Affordable Care Act in the 2010s. Covering topics as varied as health insurance, pharmaceutical pricing, government policies, physician training, medical ethics, and healthcare in other countries, it explains how healthcare in the United States has been organized, managed, delivered, and paid for.

Biographie:
Jonathan Engel is the author of American Therapy; Poor People's Medicine; Doctors and Reformers; and The Epidemic: A History of AIDS. He is a professor in the School of Public Affairs at Baruch College and an adjunct professor of health policy and management at the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University.