To Live and Die in America: Class, Power, Health and Healthcare

by Robert Chernomas and Ian Hudson

Book Overview

Reviled as one of the worst healthcare providers in the world, the United States has among the worst indicators of health in the industrialised world, whilst paradoxically spending significantly more on its health care system than any other industrial nation. Economists Robert Chernomas and Ian Hudson explain this contradictory phenomenon as the product of the unique brand of capitalism that has developed in the US. It is this particular form of capitalism...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745332129
• ISBN13: 9780745332123
• Release Date: February 2013
• Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 8.5"