21 Apr Health Care Systems Around the World
Order Instructions
As you are all well aware, politics are a natural part of democracy and the policy-making process. As the video in this week’s materials shows, this was vividly on display during the ideation, negotiation, and passage of Obamacare, the signature 2010 health care reform legislation. Of course, politics is a part of the policy-making process everywhere.
With that in mind, is the political culture in the U.S. (around health care policy-making, or in general) meaningfully different, or not? Please research the politics and political culture surrounding health care in one of the countries profiled in T.R. Reid’s book (France, Germany, Japan, the U.K., Canada, and India). What evidence can you find in the current political discourse or the recent history of the country you’ve chosen that speaks to politicians’ and the public’s approach toward health care policy-making? Once you have identified some aspects of the political culture surrounding health care policy-making in that country, please explain if you could see that culture occurring in the U.S.?
Sources:
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/obamasdeal/
Chapter 4-8 of The Healing of America (T.R. Reid) (attached)
