The USA: Decentralisation and Denial

Alfredo Saad-Filho
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Alfredo Saad-Filho: King’s College London

Chapter Chapter 9 in The Age of Crisis, 2021, pp 121-133 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The USA had the highest numberdenials of COVID-19 cases (32.1 million) and deathsdeaths (572,200) in the world, as of 26 April 2021. These tragic outcomes were due to large-scale mismanagement, that started even before the arrival of the pandemic. It is widely known that the US healthcarehealthcare system is both extensively privatised and highly decentralised, with a skeletal and chronically underfunded public system underpinning a system of provisionprovision of health serviceshealth services including highly profitable transnational pharmaceutical corporations, massive corporate healthcare providerscorporate healthcare providers, massive and small-scale clinics operating under different rulesrules both within and across state boundaries.

Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-81608-7_9

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