Wednesday, March 26, 2014
6:00 PM-12:00 AM
Penn Bookstore
3601 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
215-898-7595
www.upenn.edu/bookstore
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By relying on private enterprise more than any other developed nation, American health care has all the appearances of the free-market in action. For more than a hundred years, attempts to reform this system (including President Obama’s Affordable Care Act) have been met with opposition from parties warning against the stifling effect of government intervention. Mother of Invention traces the government’s role in building four key health care sectors into the financial powerhouses they are today: pharmaceuticals, hospitals, the medical profession, and private insurance.
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