Lessons on Health Reform From Latin America
Posted on Truthout
September 16, 2009
Carmelo Mesa-Lago
from El Pais
...The intensity of this (the U.S. Health Care) debate, and the degree of anxiety provoked by the alleged threat of a government takeover, is surprising to Spaniards, other Europeans, Canadians and Latin Americans, many of whom are covered by public health care or social insurance programs in which the government plays a predominant role in the administration of health care provisions and regulation of the increasingly marginal private sector...