America's Wrong Turn – How Neoliberalism Broke U.S. Healthcare with John McDonagh

In this episode of the Explaining History Podcast, we are joined by John McDonagh, professor of practice at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, former Massachusetts state legislator, and key architect of Obamacare. He is here to discuss his new book, America's Wrong Turn: U.S. Healthcare in the Neoliberal Era – a searing diagnosis of how a revolution in economic thinking turned the American healthcare system into a global outlier.

The United States spends more on healthcare than any other advanced nation – by a staggering margin – yet its health outcomes rank near the bo...