November 9, 2011 | CUNY School of Public Health
Steffie Woolhandler, MD, MPH and David Himmelstein, MD, professors at the CUNY School of Public Health at Hunter College published: “Healthcare Reform 2.0″ in the Fall 2011 issue of Social Research. Here is the article:
The health care reform process exposed how corporate
influences render the US government incapable of making policy on
the basis of evidence and the public interest.” This statement, featured
on the December 2009 cover of one of the world’s most important medical
journals, The Lancet, shortly before the passage of the Obama health
reform bill, highlights the major current problem in health policy.
The problem is not the state’s domination of the human body, but the
state’s abdication to corporate America of its obligations regarding the
health of the human body. Read the full text here…http://www1.cuny.edu/mu/sph/files/2011/11/783_Woolhandler-Himmelstein_719-730.pdf