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The USA: Decentralisation and Denial

In: The Age of Crisis

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  • Alfredo Saad-Filho

    (King’s College London)

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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.

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  • Alfredo Saad-Filho, 2021. "The USA: Decentralisation and Denial," Springer Books, in: The Age of Crisis, chapter 0, pages 121-133, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-030-81608-7_9
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-81608-7_9
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