Episode
Christy Ford Chapin on the Evolution of the American Health Care System
EconTalk · Jun 5, 2017 · 1 h 06 min
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…