John E. McDonough

Today, how the health care policy in the United States has evolved over decades and what might come next.

John McDonough is a former Massachusetts state legislator who now serves on the faculty of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

He joins Dr. Josh Sharfstein to talk about his new book called America's Wrong Turn, U.S. Health Care in the Neoliberal Era.

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John McDonough, it is great to have you here on Public Health On Call.

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Thanks for having me.

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Our guest today is John McDonough.

He is a professor of practice in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

He's the author of Inside National Health Reform and Expanding Politics: Stories of Government and Health Care, and his new book is America's Wrong Turn: US Health Care in the Neoliberal Era.

Welcome back, everyone.

I don't often get the chance to chat with folks who are researching social welfare history, so I was delighted to sit down with John McDonough to chat about his recently released book, America's Wrong Turn, which dives into the history of health policy in the United States.

I hope you all enjoy the conversation.

Hello, everyone.

Joining me today is John McDonough.

He is a professor at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and author whose latest book, America's Wrong Turn, U.S. Healthcare in the Neoliberal Era, explores the history of the fractured American healthcare system and will be the focus of our conversation today.

Welcome, Mr. McDonough.