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Hospital City, Health Care Nation - Race, Capital, and the Costs of American Health Care (Hardcover)
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Hospital City, Health Care Nation - Race, Capital, and the Costs of American Health Care (Hardcover)
Series: Politics and Culture in Modern America
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Hospital City, Health Care Nation recasts the story of the U.S.
health care system by emphasizing its economic, social, and medical
importance in American communities. Focusing on urban hospitals and
academic medical centers, the book argues that the country's high
level of health care spending has allowed such institutions to
become vital, if often problematic, economic anchors for
communities. Yet that spending has also constrained possibilities
for comprehensive health care reform over many decades, even after
the passage of the Affordable Care Act in 2010. At the same time,
the role of hospitals in urban renewal, in community health
provision, and as employers of low-wage workers has contributed
directly to racial health disparities. Guian A. McKee explores
these issues through a detailed historical case study of
Baltimore's Johns Hopkins Hospital while also tracing their
connections across governmental scales-local, state, and federal.
He shows that health care spending and its consequences, rather
than insurance coverage alone, are core issues in the decades-long
struggle over the American health care system. In particular,
Hospital City, Health Care Nation points to the increased role of
financial capital after the 1960s in shaping not only hospital
growth but also the underlying character of these vital
institutions. The book shows how hospitals' quest for capital has
interacted with structural racism and inequality to shape and
constrain the U.S. health care system. Building on this
reassessment of the hospital system, its politics, and its
financing, Hospital City, Health Care Nation offers ideas for the
next steps in health care reform.
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