America's Wrong Turn: US Health Care in the Neoliberal Era

How forty years of neoliberal policy choices created an American health care system that prioritizes profit over people. How can a nation with unmatched wealth and medical innovation also have the highest health care costs and the poorest health outcomes among its peers?In America's Wrong Turn, John E. McDonough offers a compelling explanation for this troubling puzzle of contemporary US life and shows that this reality did not arise by accident. Beginning in the later twentieth century, a powerful political and economic philosophy began to reshape the United States and continues to mold the institutions that govern health care, insurance coverage, and population health.Across four decades, the rise of neoliberal thinking elevated privatization, deregulation, and profit maximization as guiding principles for public policy.McDonough illustrates how these ideas influenced medical care at every level, altering government roles, accelerating consolidation, encouraging the financialization