Online Talk: The Pandemic Has Shown that the Private System of Funding Medical Care in the United States is a Disaster [] Center for Global Justice
Event Category: Presentations/Discussions
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Monday, August 31, 2020 – 1:00pm
The Pandemic Has Shown that the Private System of Funding Medical Care in the United States is a Disaster
Vicente Navarro
The United States has the dubious distinction of having the highest number of Covid-19 deaths in the world. While the Trump Administration’s handling of the pandemic is widely understood to have been a major factor in this, there is more to the story than meets the eye. The private health care system itself is ill designed for the challenge. This is the conclusion of Dr. Vicente Navarro, professor in the School of Public Health of The Johns Hopkins University… Read more
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