Aug 20
Professor Navarro published this article in the Social Europe Journal, August 17th, 2012
Mar 20
Original article by Antonio Daponte Codina, Julia Bolívar Muñoz, Silvia Toro Cárdena, Ricardo Ocaña Riola, Joan Benach Rovira and Vicente Navarro López
Published in the Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, 2008
Dec 18
Published by International Journal of Health Services, Volume 38, Number 4, Pages 597-606, 2008. December 2008
This article analyzes why people in the United States have major problems in accessing medical care that are due to financial constraints. The author suggests that the cause of these problems is the way in which medical care and elections are funded in the United States, with private sources being the largest component in the funding of both activities. The article includes a comparison of funding of the electoral process in the United States with similar electoral processes in the countries of the European Union, and postulates that privatization of the funding of U.S. elections (primary and general) is responsible for privatization of the funding of medical care—the root of people’s problem in paying for their medical care. Privatization of election funding gives undue power to the economic, financial, and professional groups that dominate medicine in the United States. Continue reading »
Jul 18
Interview to Noam Chomsky by Vincent Navarro
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For the Progressive Summer University of Catalonia (UPEC).
Interviewed by Vincent Navarro. at M.I.T., Cambridge, Massachusetts, on May 13, 2008. Vincent Navarro is Professor of Public Policy at the Pompeu Fabra University, and The Johns Hopkins University. Continue reading »
Jul 09
The Politics of Healthcare Reforms in US Presidential Elections
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Published in Harvard Health Policy Review. July 2008
The U.S. and European political cultures are very different
I appreciate the invitation from the Harvard Health Policy Review to discuss the relationship between national health care systems and the policy process. Continue reading »
Mar 11
Yes, We Can! Can We? The Next Failure of Health Care Reform
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A Counterpunch Special Report
Yes, We Can! Can We?
The Next Failure of Health Care Reform
By VINCENT NAVARRO
A major problem–if not the major problem–for many people living in the U.S. is the difficulty of accessing and paying for medical care when they are sick. For this reason, candidates in the presidential primaries of 2008–the Democrats more often than the Republicans–have been recounting stories about the health-related tragedies they have encountered in meetings with ordinary people around the country (an exercise conducted in the U.S. every four years, at presidential election time). Continue reading »