Mother of Invention: How the Government Created ‘Free Market’ Health Care
Wednesday, March 26, 2014
6:00 PM-12:00 AM
Robert I. Field, Professor of Law and Professor of Health Management and Policy at Drexel University School of Law and School of Public Health, will be discussing his recently released book at the Penn Bookstore.
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.
Robert Field is Professor of Law and Professor of Health Management and Policy at Drexel University and Lecturer in Health Care Management at the University of Pennsylvania. He has written extensively on the American health care system and has authored a comprehensive overview of health care regulation, Health Care Regulation in America: Complexity, Confrontation, and Compromise.
Contact Information
Penn Bookstore
215-898-7595
rif24@drexel.edu