Christy Ford Chapin on the Evolution of the American Health Care System

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🗓️ 5 June 2017

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Historian Christy Ford Chapin of University of Maryland Baltimore County and Johns Hopkins and author of Ensuring America's Health talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about her book--a history of how America's health care system came to be dominated by insurance companies or government agencies paying doctors per procedure. Chapin explains how this system emerged from efforts by the American Medical Association to stop various reform efforts over the decades. Chapin argues that different models might have emerged that would lead to a more effective health care system.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty.
0:08.5	I'm your host, Russ Roberts of Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
0:13.1	Our website is econtalk.org, where you can subscribe, comment on this podcast, and find
0:18.1	links and other information related to today's conversation.
0:21.0	You'll also find our archives where you can listen to every episode we've ever done going
0:25.3	back to 2006.
0:27.5	Our email address is mailadycontalk.org.
0:30.0	We'd love to hear from you.
0:32.0	Today is May 22nd, 2017.
0:36.4	And my guest is historian and author, Christie Ford Chapin of the University of Maryland, Baltimore
0:41.5	County.
0:42.5	She's also a visiting scholar at the History of Capitalism program at Johns Hopkins University.
0:47.6	Her book, which is our topic for today, is Ensuring America's Health, the Public
0:52.3	Creation of the Corporate Healthcare System, Christie Welchman, Econ Talk.
0:57.5	Thank you so much for having me, Russ.
0:59.4	Your book's a history of healthcare in the United States over the last century or so, and
1:02.5	it tries to explain a couple of peculiarities of the US system in particular why it's so expensive,
1:10.2	which I think a lot of people are aware of, but something that's not so aware of is why
1:13.6	it's so fragmented and so specialized, which we sort of take for granted, I think most
1:18.6	of us do take it for granted.
1:19.8	What I really liked about the book is it reminds readers that the way the world is now
1:23.7	may not be an inevitable result of the way things have to be.
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